My 2-year-old son has been sick (runny nose, cough, fevers) for 4 months, and our regular doctors…read morein Chicago basically ignored us. During this time we made 4 separate visits, and were always sent home without answers, Rx's, no tests were run, etc. (Not only that, but our poor child HATED going, as they always grab him harshly and make us hold him stiffly (while he screams and cries) to look in his ears, etc.)
So while visiting family in Kalamazoo over the Thanksgiving weekend, we decided to take him to Children's Medicine PC - and I am SO thankful we did!! I was a patient of Dr. Ensfield when I was a child, but only now as a mother do I understand how truly remarkable he and Marilyn Timmer are. They did NOT scare my child, or grab him, or ask us to hold him down while they did their exam. Instead (as I remarked to my husband) they observed and approached him as though he was a wild animal, slowly gaining his trust, playing with him, etc.
Once they gained his trust, they were able to look in his eyes, ears, nose, mouth, all without crying, tears, fear, etc. They were truly kind, loving, and patient towards him.
Not only that, they gave us MANY answers to why our poor child has been sick for 4 months! They ordered blood tests and X-rays (none of which was ever done in Chicago) and we have several diagnoses, and and were given Rx's for all that ails him. Only two days later, he's already feeling better.
Bless these patient and kind people. Marilyn Timmer and Dr. Ensfield are ... words cannot express... AWESOME!?! Amazing, wonderful, kind, stupendous.