Honestly I came on here to see what other mom's had to think about Streeterville because "dad" doesn't think it's worth it to take a day off work (we both work in the north suburbs) to get a flu shot. But now I know that I'm right in sticking with them. Dr. Brown came to see Nolan in the hostpital when he was born and he was great with Nolan and myself. I had to call after hours 6 days later when Nolan had developed jaundice and he said that I was right to call. He even checked in at 3 AM and joked with me about not having coffee when he saw me enter the waiting room the next morning for our prescheduled 1 week checkup. I was impressed that he remembered my face. Since then we've gone back and seen Starr, Barrows, and of course Brown who is our primary care physician. You know - any hormonal new mom is going to get frustrated when the doctor tells her to change the feeding or sleeping patterns of the baby. We see it as being told we're inadequate or a bad parent. And I didn't always take that news so well either. But at the end of the day; they're trying to be realistic with you. "If you feed your kid in the middle of the night - they will expect to keep getting fed in the middle of the night." Was I happy when Brown said that? No, I had a screaming baby at 3 AM, but he helped me find ways to fix it. Barrows can be harsh but it's sort of the harsh reality any new parent needs. You know what, I don't need to assume that my kid is going to develop some crazy fever every time he gets a shot - so maybe Dr. Barrows is more of a voice of reason than people think. I don't think he's ever directly criticizing someone's parenting - because if you were a bad parent, you probably wouldn't be at the doctor. I think women are hypersensitive to the things that he may say - but he's raised 3 kids so I'm going to take his advice with a grain of salt. I would recommend all of these doctors to my friends when they have kids (Sorry Lynch, never seen you!). The doctor's and nurses are all great. I don't foresee any change coming in our near future.

What sets Streeterville Pediatrics apart from the rest is that they genuinely care about their patients and will be advocates for your family when your are faced with genuine medical emergencies. Last summer, my son started having seizures out of nowhere. Dr. Barrows checked in with me through the whole harrowing experience and made sure that Children's Memorial did everything for my son. My infant had a 105.5 fever and Dr. Lynch took it upon herself to follow up with us in the middle of the night to make sure our little one was ok. Dr. Barrows is direct and honest. He rarely sugar coats things and can be goofy with his humor, that is why my family absolutely loves him. The nurses are wonderful and very willing to work with you and your family. I feel that the entire staff at Streeterville is dedicated to the children and the family's they care for.

Dr. Brown was my daughter's pediatrician from day 1, but have recently had to switch her to a new doctor (my daughter is now 3) because for one, in order to make an appointment with Dr. Brown the wait time was 4 months out! And I was not asking for any special days, this was his next availability. Finally I would have to settle to see another doctor in the office, because their appointments were only 3 months out. When I called the office to make an appointment, my hold time was always about 10 minutes. My one real issue with this office is that when I did ask Dr. Brown a question during one of her routine checkups, for example, about my daughter's eczema, his response was, "oh come now, you can't expect her to have perfect skin." On my next visit I asked Dr. Barrows and he told me what ointments I can use. On another occassion, when my daughter was 2 months old, she got a fever and was throwing up, I had Dr. Brown paged at 9:00pm and when he did call, he sounded very irritated that I called him about such a minor issue and that I shouldn't worry about it, it's probably just a virus that her body had to fight. I completely understand that, and I would not have bothered him had my daughter not been only 2 months old. I was told that for children under 4 months with a fever and vomitting, that I should ask a doctor. I always felt that all my questions were dismissed as just me being an "overprotective first time mom", but in reality in my daughter's 3 years I have only taken her to see a doctor once because she was very ill and otc medicine was not working, other than her routine exams. That one time I did take her, Dr. Barrows saw her and told me to keep giving her the otc medicine and that was it. That night she was coughing so bad and her fever went up very high, I had to take her to an Emergency care clinic where medicine was prescribed to her. Needless to say, I found a new pediatrician and had my first visit with her and she was much different - the whole office was.

Love them! Word of caution: Dr. Barrows can be a bit harsh, assuming and tends to talk down to parents. And the administrative staff is a bit gruff. But Starr, Brown and Lynch (the new Doctor) are all fabulous! They take their time, provide consistent feedback/advice and listen.

We have used these pediatricians for 19 years and have been very satisfied. I had to use another service for my youngest for awhile and the experience was so different, not personalized ,having to wait and not having as many well baby check ups as Barrow, Brown and Starr recommend.Plus the turn over of doctors in the group was high, my daughter saw three different docs the first year. Being able to have her hook up with Barrows, Brown and Starr was a relief. You can look around ,but I think Barrows, Brown and Starr are top notch. have not met the new doc yet. R. G.