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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 354977" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I know this gets up your nose. It would get up mine. But form my long-term experience of "blame the victim" attitudes in many parts of the medical profession, I strongly recommend you go through with the parenting capacity test.</p><p></p><p>Look at it this way - if the test is really not needed, then it will completely clear you guys of blame. And you will have done it, gone through with it and have it to point to if any doctor in the future says, "You guys are part of the problem."</p><p></p><p>But if the doctor turns out to have a point, then you will know and you will be able to deal with it and get it out of the way. And maybe improve things to a slight extent, depending on how much your parenting style is a factor (if at all).</p><p></p><p>If you don't do the test but instead walk away and change doctors, you will find at some future stage, this will happen again. And again. And keep happening, until you deal with it. And every time you change doctors, you go back to square one, which means the first few appointments each time will be reinventing the wheel. </p><p></p><p>It's cheaper to do what this guy wants. When you come through it with flying colours, you go back to him and say, "NOW can we get serious about helping this kid?"</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 354977, member: 1991"] I know this gets up your nose. It would get up mine. But form my long-term experience of "blame the victim" attitudes in many parts of the medical profession, I strongly recommend you go through with the parenting capacity test. Look at it this way - if the test is really not needed, then it will completely clear you guys of blame. And you will have done it, gone through with it and have it to point to if any doctor in the future says, "You guys are part of the problem." But if the doctor turns out to have a point, then you will know and you will be able to deal with it and get it out of the way. And maybe improve things to a slight extent, depending on how much your parenting style is a factor (if at all). If you don't do the test but instead walk away and change doctors, you will find at some future stage, this will happen again. And again. And keep happening, until you deal with it. And every time you change doctors, you go back to square one, which means the first few appointments each time will be reinventing the wheel. It's cheaper to do what this guy wants. When you come through it with flying colours, you go back to him and say, "NOW can we get serious about helping this kid?" Marg [/QUOTE]
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