Age you stopped going to the pediatrician

I saw a Family Doctor after my Pediatrician.

My last visit was like a week after I turned 18. I went for my last depo shot and to talk to them about recommendations.

I stopped going to the pediatrician at around age 12 or 13. That’s about when I changed doctors.

I was about 11, I haven't gone to the doctor since then for a full physical exam

Last year of high school.

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.

@sam42

What's a pediatrician? I grew up in NH in the 40s and it was the same here. Called family doctor if they thought you might die. Doctor's office was in his house where you went for routine shots, whatever it was they gave kids then. He came to the house to give me the vaccination that was required before starting school, YOWEE!!! kept stabbing me with a needle until he made a scar about a half inch circle on my upper arm. They did it to the girls on their upper legs so it wouldn't show which left them all with an ugly scar for us boys to see.

13 I believe

I believe I was 12 or 13. Same thing, Dr. retired and my Mom found a new Dr. This was also the first time I went into the exam room by myself.

Never had a pediatrician. There were family doctors who made house calls whenever needed.

I was 17 going into my Senior year of high school I needed one last exam before the school year started

I believe I was 14. I had a physical before I started high school and got my vaccinations up to date. I think that was the last physical I had until I graduated from college and went before my medical insurance ran out. When I got my own insurance in grad school, I started going more regularly.

He came to the house to give me the vaccination that was required before starting school, YOWEE!!! kept stabbing me with a needle until he made a scar about a half inch circle on my upper arm. They did it to the girls on their upper legs so it wouldn't show which left them all with an ugly scar for us boys to see.

That was a smallpox vaccination most likely. I had these done 3 times because of 1950's transatlantic voyages and border crossings. Obligatory for most travel back then.

But that aside, the kids that had such scars, seemed to treat them as badges of honor or duelling scars, something to show off and say how much they hurt (which wasn't really very much truth be told). I usually won the contest, most kids having but 1 vaccination scar.

18 its the last time a women in her 40s/50s saw me in my underwear and groped me. Now I go to a guy like everyone else.

I doubt a genuine medical professional would have groped you. That would be an assault. I imagine you meant examined you.

It was supposed to be a joke was all

High school. then on to an internist.

I think I was 18 or 19. I don’t know the exact age. I do know that it was awkward going there the last few times. I knew I was too old, but that’s where my mother kept sending me.

I’m pretty sure the last time I went to the pediatrician was for an annual physical during spring break my freshman year of college. Mom surprised me with that trip. That made me feel like a baby because I had no say even though I was an adult.

I remember feeling resentment that my friends were in Florida sitting on a beach getting drunk, and I was sitting in an exam room practically naked getting felt up (examined).

But who really cares? Those memories are fun now!

Amanda, could you share some more about what your last exams at the pediatrician were like? What all did he/she examine? Were you undressed from the beginning? Did your mom stay in the room at the whole time? I myself went until I was 18, the exam was exactly the same as all my exams since about age 12.

I was 17, nearly 18.

They were post treatment follow up visits for a course of treatment that I had had age 15/16.

For those who have had a physical examination kind of check up before starting a new year school in high school or as a freshman in high school after middle school, were you alone for that examination or accompanied by your mother and she was present in the exam room or waited in the waiting room ?

and when you had a medical form filled by your own doctor, did you have nevertheless a group physical examination at school which was mandatory even for those who had a medical form, especially to practice sports.

In France in the 60's even if you had been examined by your own doctor you might go to the schoolexamination with a woman doctor assisted by the permanent nurse of the school and it could be very embarrassing to stand in brief ( it was the less embarrassing situation in front of two women since the entry in the exam room because we were instructed to undress by group of at least 15 boy's students in a locker room supervised by a Pe teacher and some of them took pleasure to increase the embarrassment of their students, what they called their false modesty by instructing them to remove their brief when they were the next to be examined and to stand asid the door stark naked exposed to his view and that of all the classmates and once the nurse came, she made us enter in the examination room without a word of surprise which meaned that she knew the tough methods of the Pe teacher and may be approved them,she had a first glance on our naked butts while she stayed behind us to close the door and then we were examined by her for the first part and then by the doctor for the last part, completely naked for about ten minutes or a little less but more than five.

it was mandatory once a year at the beginning of the school year so thre was no use to go to your own doctor .

Did you know such examinations carried out by the school in the united states or other country ?

I started school in 1945, graduated in 1957 and don't remember any such exams in or for school. Probably had an exam by the family doctor before entering 1st grade but no complete exams after that. The school doctor came to the school once a year and checked us over but no removal of clothing, not even shirts. He just sat at the front of the classroom and we went up there for him to check our throats and respiration and looked at us. I don't even remember that happening after grade 1 except when there was something going around like measles or mumps.or the flu. They did give us annual eye exams for the first few years. We all got the Salk vaccine when that came out if our parents signed for it. I think the second year they put it on a sugar cube to avoid the scary needle. Several of the kids I started school with did get polio so most of us got the shot when it was available.

I think 14 was my last visit. It was the last of the required immunizations for high school and I hated going so my parents just let it go after that.

20. My last appointment is tomorrow. I am not at all ashamed and I will justify any people that call me out. I was lucky enough that I got to see him for this long because I have had complex health issues my entire life and he was always an expert at knowing what to do and sometimes would clear his schedule and talk with me and my parents for two hours if he had to. I’m going to miss him.

I’ve heard I’m not the oldest person to still see a pediatrician, some city doctors see patients up to the age of 25-30. Plus there’s just something about a nicely decorated waiting room as opposed to one with plain white walls...

I just had my last appointment with my pediatrician/family practice doctor whom I have seen for the last 20 years since I was a little girl. He’s retiring. I was holding back tears the whole time. Dr.C, I just want you to know you’re the best doctor I could’ve ever asked for. Thank you for taking care of me through good times and bad. It will be hard to find a doctor as good as you. There are big shoes to fill.

Well most laws say that you can only go to a pediatric doctor until you are 18 years of age, and that was my last time, but some people say they were able to stay longer

Well most laws say that you can only go to a pediatric doctor until you are 18 years of age, and that was my last time, but some people say they were able to stay longer

They have laws? 😧

I guess I'm glad I'm closer to checking out time than checking in time. When I checked in I got the family doctor of my mother's choosing. If they had pediatricians back then, only rich people went to them or maybe you had to be a college grad-gee-ate to know about them. The gov-mint certainly didn't tell us who we went to. We were free to choose doctor granny up the hill if we wanted.

Age 15. I was mortified that I was in a waiting room full of little kids and moms. I asked one of my school friends about his G.P. and he sounded good, so I went there with my frequent O.M.E. He was cool and I liked him.

18, 14 when parent stopped coming into exam room

Age 18 before going off to college. Same routine. Walked down the hallway into exam room. Asked to undress completely and wait on the exam table.

The last time I went to my pediatrician I was 11 or 12 for a sports physical. I was too embarrassed to go through that every year with her so I asked my parents if I could go to their male family doctor going forward. Of course now I regret that decision.