Polar Pediatrics : Monique L. Child, M.D.
603 West Tudor Road, Anchorage, Alaska, United States
About the Polar Pediatrics : Monique L. Child, M.D.
Polar Pediatrics, led by Dr. Monique L. Child, provides comprehensive pediatric care in Anchorage, Alaska. Located at 603 West Tudor Road, this institution offers a warm and welcoming environment for children of all ages. Dr. Child and her team are dedicated to promoting the health and well-being of their young patients, with a focus on preventative care and personalized treatment plans. Whether your child needs a routine check-up, vaccinations, or treatment for an illness, Polar Pediatrics is committed to providing top-quality medical care. Schedule an appointment today and experience the compassionate and expert care that sets Polar Pediatrics apart.
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603 W Tudor Rd, Anchorage, AK 99503, United States
Reviews of Polar Pediatrics : Monique L. Child, M.D.
"I wasn’t going to ever leave a review but after seeing other people experiencing the same problem I feel like I must. While I was in the hospital from giving birth I tried to call to schedule an appointment for my newborn to be seen. She asked if I was going to vaccinate and I said yes for everything but Covid and flu. Immediately her tone changed and she became very rude and hostile. She started insulting me over the phone. She can run her practice however she sees fit but she is a mean woman who probably shouldn’t be working with the public let alone children. I would go literally anywhere else and did. As for my daughters medical records that were sent to her she said she “couldn’t find them” just goes to show she’s either disorganized or a liar."
"I’m so glad she hung up the phone on me and saved me the nightmare of going in to see her. She says “if you don’t believe in having vaccines it’s the same as not believing in car seats.” This lady needs to have her license taken away. 10/10 DO NOT RECOMMEND."
"If I could rate this with no stars I would in a heart beat! This provider is the worst and gave me the worst experience ever! She made be feel so belittled! Told me that if I did not care enough to vaccinate my kids with the Covid vaccine then she would not care enough to be there for their care. She gave me an ultimatum and said I either get them Covid vaccinated or I will need to find another provider! Without any issues I went and found my kids a new provider over at LaTouche Pediatrics! This lady also DENIED me my sons medical records!!!!!!! All I wanted was a copy of his well child check and she asked me for what for, I told her my reason and she told me no that she will not be giving me my sons medical history, so I then had to go through LaTouche to get my sons records!!! When giving my youngest son his vaccines, she wasn't being careful administering them and she cut my sons leg with the needle! of course this was after she gave me the ultimatum so she was already in a mood and did not care to administer the vaccines properly. This lady needs to have her license taken away. She does not care for children they way she says she does. It is either her way or the high way and as a parent, you are no one to tell me how to raise my kids or what is best for my kids, or even tell me I don't care for my kids, when I am the one with them 24/7!!!!! She is such a rude person, I don't understand why she treats parents the way she does! I would NEVER refer this lady to anyone!!!!!!!!!"
"On September 5th 2023 I took my daughter in to see Dr.Monique L. Childs to get caught up on her Vaccines. She is 7 months now and was behind on her 4 month and 6 months shots. Dr.Childs asked me all the questions about how my daughter is developing and then proceeded to take her height, weight, and head circumference and then told me the vaccines she was going to administer to my child. She said she was giving her the Pediatrix 3in1(dTap,polio,hepB), pcv-13(pnuemo), HIB (hemophilia), Roteq (rotavirus) and the Flu shot. After she was done administering the vaccines she said "Now shes all caught up with her 4 month shots, the Flu shot an the first dose of the COVID vaccine." At this point I stop in my tracks and say " C O I V D!!!!" "We never agreed to giving my daughter the COVID vaccine." She then said "That was the 5th vaccine I thought you knew all my patients have to be COVID vaccinated to be seen at my clinic." She then asked me why I was so uncomfortable with the vaccine and I told her to which she dismissed my concerns regarding the vaccine. After that she apologized a few times and told me that non of my kids can be seen at her office anymore and that she was canceling all future appointments. This infuriates me because this is not the first time her and I had spoken to her about giving my children the COVID vaccine. Per our last conversation regarding the vaccine I let her know that My husband and I do NOT want to give any of our children and or ourselves the COVID vaccine. She tried to convince me why it was a good idea to get it and I still said NO, she then said "just so you know, I am not accepting any new patients unless they are COVID vaccinated but sense you are already an established patient its ok we will revisit the conversation next time you come in." I left it at that. Now I'm angry because she gave my 7 month old a vaccine without my consent and absolutely no conversation about giving her the first dose was had before she took it upon her self to inject my baby. Update!! She then had the audacity to respond saying this.. “You consented to all the vaccines due. You were dismissed from the practice due to no longer wanting to do that.” No mam, you are fibbing. I consented to all vaccines due by the anchorage school system and the flu shot. Not once did I ever consent to the COVID VACCINE!!! That vaccine is a choice a choice you ripped away from me and my child by taking it upon yourself to give it to my baby without even speaking to me about it. You should have dismissed me before INJECTING MY CHILD!!! If you were a good doctor you would have noticed that not one of my kids are COVID vaccinated and you would have asked before just taking it upon yourself to do that. Your only excuse was “Oh I thought you knew all my patients have to be COVID vaccinated” I thought you knew and informing someone about a policy you keep changing is not the same. Like I said in my previous post the last time we spoke about giving the COVID vaccine you said because we were established patients that it was ok and we would revisit the conversation at our next appointment. Did you even MENTION IT!!! No you did not."
"We had an very negative and negligent experience with Dr. Child. We saw her almost a year and a half ago, but I never wrote a review at that time. When a mom in a mom group mentioned her recent terrible experience, I decided to share our story as a warning. I have seen that Dr. Child responds quite aggressively to low reviews here, so I want to preface this by saying that we did not have a contentious relationship. We left her practice peacefully and never mentioned our reasons for leaving because we were not looking for conflict, we just wanted good care for our son. Dr. Child was our son’s first pediatrician as a newborn. He did not gain weight appropriately and fell both off of his curve and off the charts completely to below the 1st percentile by his two-month check-up. At his appointment, she commented off-hand about how little he still was and noted that he wasn’t gaining well (after weighing him extremely roughly on a scale not designed for babies, similar to the kind you use at the gym, with the sliding bar). After seeing that his weight was now below the 1st percentile, she recommended we come back in *3 weeks* for a weight check. We quickly switched to LaTouche and they took immediate action for his weight gain, got us a consultation with the in-office lactation consultant the next day (where via regular weighted feeds we found out he was taking in only 1/2 of what he needed while nursing and we were able to work to fix this), and had us come in multiple times over the next couple of weeks for weight checks. He is now in the 90th percentile at 18 months. Dr. Child’s negligence regarding his health was shocking and on top of that she was unprofessional and rude. There were multiple instances where we felt dismissed, belittled, or patronized, but I am not going to go into these as that can turn into a he-said she-said type of argument. Our complaints regarding her medical care stand alone. I recommend avoiding Dr. Monique Child as strongly as possible. I don’t like to think about if we had let our son go hungry for another 3 weeks at her advice. The fact that he had fallen below the 1st % and she didn’t care to look into why that was or even do a weight check for weeks is shocking to me."
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