Rejection

I suppose that if you practice long enough, you will have this experience. My appointment scheduler came to tell me that one of my patients -- a 2 month old was switching providers. I may have lost patients before, but been blissfully unaware. This time, I knew. Strangely enough, just a week before I had answered a phone call from her mother, weeping on the phone that the baby was not doing well. I lost no time getting in touch with a specialist to weigh in on the problem and called her right back. I thought we had things settled. Apparently not. While I do not resent this mother wanting to take her baby to another doctor elsewhere, it does leave me wonder what I did wrong. I cannot think of anything (that's scary too, no?). Well, I hope the mother and baby do well, and receive the care they merit. I will miss not seeing little one grow up in my practice.