This was the most callous bedside manner I have ever seen, and if I could leave no stars that would be my choice. Dr. Pennington treated my wife's screaming-in-pain levels of injury was as if he were talking to an idiot child, and he repeatedly spoke in a condescending manner when referring to my wife's high level of pain, use of a wheelchair as a result, and our frustration with his unwillingness to do anything more than tell us "it would be fine."
When asked about the injury, he said "Oh, that injury will heal over time," and when confronted with the fact that it had been getting progressively and steadily worse for the last three months since the injury occurred, suddenly changed his mind and said "Oh, that's normal and to be expected." His only medical assistance was to recommend a physical therapist after tweaking my wife's injured area repeatedly when asking about irrelevant areas, even after being told specifically the area of injury. When told that the current pain levels meant that physical therapy would be impossible without medication to help control the pain enough to perform the therapy, he regarded us as if we had grown additional heads and said that "He wouldn't have recommended the current level of medication" to my wife, who again was unable to sleep more than an hour or two at night due to the pain for three solid months.
I would highly recommend seeking out any alternative professional, or pediatrician, or even a street peddler; Any of these would be more helpful and display more human emotions than we received from Dr. Pennington. We had expected that we would get a referral for physical therapy, and hopefully additional medication to control the pain, but we were not expecting to be treated with a vacuum of compassion, and blatant annoyance at my wife's crying in pain in the office.
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