Age you stopped going to the pediatrician

14. In Russia everyone stopped going to the pediatrician at that age and started going to ordinary clinic.

In 1964,the family Pediatrician told my Dad I would need a regular Doctor when I turned 15.

I never saw a pediatrician. In our small town, all we had were general practitioners who saw patients of all ages and did everything from setting broken arms to delivering babies to taking out tonsils and appendices. The first time I saw anything other than a GP, I was 37 and saw a urologist for a kidney stone.

We had a number of different doctors when I was a kid but our main provider was a large pediatric/adolescent clinic. I think I was 17 my last visit there.

1956 - I was 12. We'd moved to a new town and my mom found a GP to be the family doctor. My brother was 6 and he was switched to the GP at the same time.

I pretty much stopped seeing my pediatrician up to like... 11 I think (said I was growing healthy that there was no need to see him). Not sure if that's a good idea since anything can happen and go unnoticed at anytime...

I never had a pediatrician. We had a general medical doctor who covered all ages (all of the family used her). She was wonderful and I still miss her bed side manner to this day.

Maybe like 16 or 17. I can't remember.

I was 16 or 17 then, i started seeing a GP

I was 12. My pediatrician retired and had to get a new doctor anyway

I had to see a Consultant Paediatrician twice per year. That stopped when I was aged 12. But I had school medicals (school doctors would be said to be Paediatricians) until age 17.

While my parents never shied from taking me to their doctor in a pinch, I think I finally stopped seeing a pediatrician around 12 or so and use theirs until he retired. I'm not sure my mother was too happy about that since she spent some time trying to convince me that kids went to pediatricians (or at least that specific practice) until 21.

Never been to one. It was always school physicals or public clinic. Now it's just primary care doc..wish I had a pediatrician.

17

I was 22 years old.

I was 14

13

I was 15-I started High School & had to see the GP

I went to a doctor at a practice specializing in pediatric and adolescent medicine until I went off to college. I was probably 20 or so the first time I went to the university health care center and saw a doctor for a well physical.

I went to a doctor at a practice specializing in pediatric and adolescent medicine until I went off to college. I was probably 20 or so the first time I went to the university health care center and saw a doctor for a well physical.

In the past, a pediatrician saw only young children. After the baby boomer families stopped having so many children, they had to see adolescents in order to have enough patients for a decent income.

In the past, a pediatrician saw only young children. After the baby boomer families stopped having so many children, they had to see adolescents in order to have enough patients for a decent income.

I did not know that. Makes sense, though.

KC Patient,

It has been my experience regarding adolescent examinations with the pediatrician that they tended to afford the same amount of patient modesty to developing teenagers as they did to young children. While their clientele may have transitioned, their mindset had clearly remained static.

I was 18, I had a physical for college.

I was like 16 or 17, in high school.

I was 14 (the age in which in Italy the pediatric assistance finishes and you have to choose a family doctor).

I was healthy in college and didn't need to see a doctor (other than the college clinic). When I got out of college and got insurance, I called my pediatrician's office and asked about finding "an adult doctor." They laughed at me a bit.

I grew up during the 1940s and 1950 in rural Pennsylvania where there were no pediatricians, just family doctors. If you were seriously ill, doctors made house calls. Their offices were in residential dwellings. When I had pneumonia, the doctor came to our house several times to give me penicillin injections.

I think I was 10; doctor said I was healthy and didn't need to visit yearly, although I do think that's dangerous if something develops and it isn't checked.

I do not remember the last visit to the pediatrician, I had to be 2 or 3 years old. I never went to the doctor regularly during my childhood, only in case of illness and it was very rare. The only medical exams were in the school and not every year, only five times.

I was 18 years old. What sort of doctor did people start going to after they stopped at the pediatrician?