My son's care was completely mismanaged at kressville. First of all he had stomach pain almost daily for several years as well as very slow weight gain, and I was told that he was making it up for attention. It turns out after testing at chop that he has several gastrointestinal conditions that were causing this pain and slow growth. I had to make the appointment at chop on my own because kressville kept blowing off my concerns. Also, my son had recurring croup while we were patients at kressville. He was prescribed an albuterol inhaler by the doctors at kressville, which I come to find out actually makes croup worse. He was also given multiple courses of 5 day prednisone for "reactive airway" which I came to find out is the wrong steroid for croup, and also too long of duration. These meds were unnecessary and detrimental. The final straw at kressville was when my son had a 7 week long illness. He had high fevers of 103-104 almost daily for over a month. He was given 3 courses of steroids during this time, as well as 2 courses of anitbiotics. When the antibiotics that one doctor prescribed did not work, we were told by another doctor to "just stop taking them" after only 3 days being on them. Several weeks later he was still sick and prescribed antibiotics again. After 3 days of the second course of antibiotics, I called in to the office because my son still had a 104 degree fever, joint pains, rashes, and non stop coughing. He had been sick for 6 weeks. I was told by Dr. Hill that since the antibiotic course was 10 days, I shouldn't be calling the office until 10 days have passed! No concern that my son had been sick for 6 weeks. I ended up going to chop again and found out he had RSV. All the meds they had pumped him with were useless because he had a virus. We switched to a chop pediatrician, where they take your care seriously. I was so disappointed in Kressville. read more
