Donna,
Your questions sound entirely reasonable to me. As a working mother, your time is very valuable and you don't have it to waste hours sitting in doctor's office with a sick child. Yes, employers have to give us the time to take care of these matters and no matter how understanding they are, they still prefer us to be at work between 8 & 5.
Another question I have never thought of until our Controller brought it up once was to ask where the Dr. placed in his graduating class. Makes sense to me - I don't want someone who barely passed to treat me.
Michelle
