Teacher vs. Pediatrician-who wins?/who's advice do you take?

As a Teacher I know the wealth of knowledge that I have and I trust in the wealth of knowledge that my team has. However being a parent you have no choice but to entrust your child, their care and their learning into what you expect to be and just plain old hope to be "capable hands" on a day to day basis. However, for a doctor/pediatrician you entrust your childs care to them on a appointment basis. And with both you expect that they will give you and your child exactly what he/she needs or what you think they need. There are so many differences and yet very little (but one or two) similarities. So with two capable people giving you two different opinions on the same subject matter, who do you listen to?

Feeling that your child may be different in any way is difficult to process and to handle. However, if you feel that your child is different in any way seek help immediately! Please don't wait. There can only be two senarios. 1. You were worried about nothing because there were test and nothing came of it. OR 2. Your worries were correct, something was found and now your child is on the road to receiving help to correct or to recover what went wrong.
BUT IF YOU WAIT only one thing can come of that: the child misses the opportunity to correct it, you continue to wonder and now someone else has to point it it because it is interfering with learning.

This blog post is in honor of a family that trusted a pediatrician that encouraged mom to wait. The child is in my care so naturally I had to bring it up and try to deprogram the parents about getting their child help. This child had never been in school so mom only had the pediatrician to listen too. I am sorry that this happened. The parents now have the info to get some help and prayfully soon mom will contact them and they will be on the road to getting the help that this child needs.