Paul Joseph Trainer

After waiting over two hours for my 12 month old to be seen Dr. Trainer was very high and mighty and short and could have cared less on what we had to say about how our son was acting and what symptoms he had. At this point we had been dealt with him being sick for over a week and just progressively getting worse. Dr. Trainer dismissed everything that was being said and chaulked all his symptoms up to his MMR vaccine. The rash I understood being from the vaccine but not all the other symptoms. Now a week later and my son getting even sicker and me knowing that something was wrong and still being dismissed by the practice Dr. Trainer works in along with being unable to schedule an appointment to be seen we saw a PA at Forbes Emergency that confirmed that my son has an upper respiratory infection and an ear infection. I will never ever recommend Dr. Trainer let alone the practice to anyone ever. Even the nurses and front office staff have been pretty crappy.

Dr.Paul is the best pediatrician I have met. He was so knowledgeable about everything I had questions about. He pointed out things that I wasn’t even aware of and helped me understand how to get my baby on the best sleep schedule. He was so gentle with my baby and had the answers to all my questions. I 100% recommend Dr.Paul to everyone!

No. This man should not be a pediatrician. He shows zero compassion for his patients and is down right RUDE. He disgusts me to be honest.

I took my son in to his pediatrician because he was having pain on his penis. He has been potty training and I just wanted to make sure there wasn’t something underlying wrong. Turns out he has been tugging it too much. LOL. Anyway, I was talking to Dr. Trainer explaining my sons exploration of his penis, also sharing that I had changed a little girls diaper in front of him and he looked and said, “no penis!” I responded to my son, “Some people are born with penises, and some with vaginas and some have both a penis and a vagina.” Intentionally leaving gender out of the conversation and sticking to biological sex, because he is young and for us gender is a more complicated subject. I shared with Dr. Trainer that I would explain gender when he is a little older, because he just recently turned two. The doctor looked at me and was like, “no…. It’s simple, girls have vaginas and boys have penises, the end. It doesn’t need to get more complicated than that, you will confuse him.” I explained we are an LGBT family and for us, it is more complicated than that. We have friends who are girls with penises and boys with vaginas. So, we are approaching it differently. I explained, at this age, we would talk about biological sex and when he is older we would explain gender is in the brain and how someone feels. In our house we are both closer to non-binary, so we don’t have such rigid binary gender rules. He basically told me that it was harmful to confuse a child like this…. He went on to say those were adult things and not things that should be talked about with children… Which is super culturally insensitive and not his place. I am also worried that if Dr. Trainer works with a kiddo that comes out as transgender before turning 18 that he will be just as dismissive and insensitive to them as he was to me. Which could be very harmful. So, I shared some resources with Andrea (the office manager) on some of the medical CEU’s for working with people who identified as transgender, so that maybe he would take this as a learning opportunity and educate himself. However, based on Andrea’s indifferent attitude, I feel like she plans to tell him how I feel and thats about it. She said there has never been complaints about him. Which is great, but does that mean you don’t take this one seriously? IDK. I know we won’t be seeing him again, thats for sure. Hopefully he takes this as an opportunity to educate himself and grow. But you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink…. So if you are an LGBT family or your kiddo identifies as LGBT, you might consider getting them a different doctor.

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Dr. Trainer is one amazing doctor. Being a pharmacist and knowing the medical field, I completely trust his medical judgement and knowledge. Being a parent I appreciate how relates to my children and explains and ask questions to them. He is my go to person for everything kids and he has gone above and beyond to answer my questions and concerns and has helped me navigate parenthood every step of the way.

Dr. Trainer is the most caring and knowledgeable pediatrician I have come across for my eight year old son. I would recommend him to anyone who has just had a baby up to a teenager. He is very caring and takes the time with my son. Would like to thank him for always being so wonderful!

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Dr. Trainer is a fantastic pediatrician! Both of my children are patients of his. He is caring and to the point. I couldn't imagine a better Dr for my kids!

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