When your child is sick or injured, every protective, nurturing feeling you have as a parent comes rushing forward. It's difficult to think about anything except your child, and doing whatever you can to relieve their suffering - right NOW!

Getting quality medical care, without feeling like you're a number or the next piece on the assembly line is getting harder. The days of having the same family doctor who treated you, and your parents and now your kids, have gone the way of house calls. Doctors today are feeling the pressure too. They are being told to see more patients and given less time to do it in. In fact, with HMO's, health insurance cutbacks, and over-booked appointments, you might not have that much time to talk to your child's doctor during a well-child checkup, let alone now, when your child is sick!