When Your Child Is Afraid of the Doctor
Marcela Jones, an English professor in Washington, D.C., says her 3-year-old daughter, Amalia, starts screaming as soon as they step into a doctor’s office. Her child’s white coat-triggered misery started, Jones says, with her two-year checkup — Amalia had her routine shots and then went upstairs to another office for a lead blood test. “We had to have three people holding her down,” says Jones. “It was horrible.”
(WebMD)