She's 6.5 months pregnant and finally just received a straight medical coverage and ended up not able to go to Kaiser Permanente because of type of medical coverage she got. She wants to go to Stanford Hospital if possible but we don't know any Ob Gyn female who is affiliated with Stanford. Please we need help to find a OB GYN Doctor asap, since she's almost 7 months and she has not taken the diabetes lab test. Please kindly give us an answer asap. Thank you.
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Just meet with the team and they will help her have this baby.
Med-i-cal does not give someone unlimited choice, but you can have a healthly baby
Is straight medical like Medicaid? Either way (medicaid or traditional ins) she should be able to look up providers. Check the on-line site for her insurance. That would be the first place I'd start. Or if you can't find out anything that way check out the Stanford hospitals website. Hospital websites will have a listing of the doctors affiliated and their specialties.
Try calling the hospital for a recommendation.
Ususally insurance provides a list of "providers." Start checking now as some providers do not take new patients, etc. The process could take a few weeks.
Mom,
Just curious, how old is your daugther and what is she thinking not to have seen a Dr by now? You need to insist she calls for an appt is seen asap. I would have her look up on the web-site of Stanford Hospital and see what physicians are listed as OB/GYN portion,. Then she will need to call the lady Dr's and see they are taking new patients at this time. It may take her weeks to get in so at this point I dont even know if it is worth her waiting for a particular OB Dr to see. She may want to see whoever will see her the quickest and takes her insurance t it may not be an option. Please tell me she is taking prenatal vitamins? Let her know that although she may want and get an exam with a female OB Dr there is a good chance that her Dr will not even be delivering her baby, many practices have a rotation of Dr's who deliver in an on-call situation. My OB Dr I had seen for 8 months was not on call to deliver our baby so a completely new Dr I didnt even know delivered our baby which is quite common in this field. Please insist your daughter get on this asap, her baby's life could depend on this.Good luck to her.
Just an 'echo' to some of the other advice you've gotten... She may not be able to be choosy about whether she see's a female Dr. And quite frankly, I've found over the years that some of them aren't as good as the male Drs. The best Dr. I had when pregnant with my children was a male Dr. and as someone else has mentioned, he wasn't even able to be the delivery Dr. when it came time for my kids to be born. In each case, I was fortunate to have very good caring Drs. in the delivery room. For one birth I even had an intern doing the actual delivery... with an experienced Dr. right there to assist of course!
I currently have a female Dr. and am quite happy that I'm past the age of childbearing, because I know I would be out finding someone else if I were pregnant. This Dr. has absolutely no good "bedside manner" at all! I'm sure there are as many good female Drs. as there are good male Drs. and vice-versa, but don't assume that it's necessarily going to be better for your daughter to be seen by a female.
I don't know about the insurance situation in your area, but please be open to a male OBGYN. She needs a good, competent dr ASAP and if it's a man, then so be it. SHe needs medical care ASAP for the health of her child. I have had both male and female OBGYNs. I have found that the males are gentler doing vaginal checks/pap smears etc. - probably because they have never had one themselves and try very hard to be extra gentle. As far as the delivery - it's such an exhausting and physically painful experience that I honestly didn't care who was in the room to deliver as long as they were helping me! I had a woman once and a man once - no difference. If your daughter is young, she may be thinking a male OBGYN might find her attractive or gets kicks out of looking at womens privates every day. She really doesn't understand that medicine is a business and that this is their job. They want to do it well and they want to feel good about their contribution to the health of women and babies. It's not all about sex, sex, sex.I had an ovarian cyst when I was about 19 and I was taken by my parents to a specialist who was male. Although he was older than me (probably by 10-12 yr) he was still young enough that it bothered me. People are still so self centered when they are young and think about everything in relation to themselves, when in fact they dr has no interest in them whatsoever except for the aspect of their health that they are treating. Good luck in finding a good and compentent dr - hopefully one with a pleasant bedside manner too.
I used to see Dr. Ruth Ann Crystal in Palo Alto and she was absolutely fantastic. Not sure if she's accepting patients, but google her for her info. Good luck to your daughter!
At this point in the pregnancy, she does not have any time to be choosy. She needs to get into any OB/GYN that will take her insurance and see her as soon as possible. Her and her baby's life is at stake.
Try the OB Dept at Menlo Medical Clinic in Menlo Park on Crane St. I believe the are affiliated with Stanford
