So I do kinda the opposite, though I always swore I wouldn't. My mom is a nurse, used to be the office manager for a general practice dr's office and we only went to the doctor when needed. I know that there is nothing that can be done for a cold and that sometimes kids run fevers for no real reason, but whenever I call the pediatrician to ask a question, I always get the answer "the doctor's going to need to see her" and so I take her in. In the last 6 months she has had 2 urinalysis's (which btw are really awful for a poor little baby who is no where near potty trained) and neither came up with anything and the following day she was completely fine. So unnecessary tests. Fun. But my husband is usually the one who notices the symptoms first. My mom thinks that she is ALWAYS sick (she's just a warm baby, mom, I promise) and so I ignore her after a dozen times of taking her temp when she was a newborn only to find that it was 97.2 and she was totally fine.