Why So Many Pediatricians Do ‘Well-Child Visits’
If you recognize the subscription model behind magazines or newspapers or the book a month club or membership based golf courses or membership clubs or wine clubs or Amazon Prime or a monthly cable bill or the Dollar Shave Club or Substack, then you recognize the model behind well child visits.
It gives the seller of goods and services a reliable stream of income, often upon which other goods and services can be developed and sold.
Anyone who has had a child in the last twenty years knows this is not a necessary schedule. The following is from Kaiser-Permanente, an organization that was once an innovative healthcare provider taking on the American Medical Association, but which has become as establishment as can be:
Your child’s doctor will recommend a schedule for well-child visits. One example is for visits at ages:
- 3 to 5 days old.
- By 1 month.
- 2 months.
- 4 months.
- 6 months.
- 9 months.
- 1 year.
- 15 months.
- 18 months.
- 2 years.
- 30 months.
- 3 years.
After age 3, well-child visits are usually scheduled yearly through the teen years.
That’s from the Kaiser-Permanente website but is hardly as aggressive as what some Kaiser doctors will recommend, if they think they can get away with it. It is the model posted online for public consumption and is modeled after the American Academy of Pediatrics public-facing guidance.
This schedule of well child visits parallels closely with the childhood immunization guidance.
Yes, anyone who has had a child in the last twenty years knows this is not a necessary schedule.
But you know what, your time is worth zero to them. And the extra visits likely cost you nothing or next to nothing monetarily, since your insurance handles it. That is enough for most people to call it “free.”
So you spend 2 or 3 hours from the time you leave your home to the time you get back, as you go through
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