Dr. Christopher M. Branner, MD

Dr. Branner took exceptional care of my son at Children’s Urgent Care in Blakeney. Over the Easter weekend my son fell ill and we were monitoring him. He was just over a year old and had recently had 4 back to back double ear infections each month; so we just assumed it was another ear infection and he was already scheduled to have tubes put in that coming week. We were trying to wait out the weekend to call his pediatrician on Monday morning. On Easter, he began having trouble breathing and his temperature wouldn’t go down with Motrin so we made the decision to go to urgent care. Dr. Branner, who had seen my son mutiple times at urgent care for his ear infections, began to examine him. There was nothing wrong with my son’s ears, as my husband and I suspected. But Dr. Branner could hear crackling in his chest and my son’s oxygen level was down. Dr. Branner gave him back to back altbuterol treatments. He wasn’t responding quickly enough as Dr. Branner would like. So, rather than doing a chest X-ray there; Dr. Branner contacted Levine Children’s Hospital and arraigned for immediate transport. Ultimately my son was diagnosed with pneumonia and hospitalized for 3 days. We were very grateful for Dr. Branner’s quick and detailed action which saved our son’s life. We were also appreciative and thankful for Dr. Branner to check in with us to see how our son was recuperating. Since he wasn’t our pediatrician he really didn’t have to. It meant a lot to us. He is a great pediatric doctor!