Pediatrics
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Pediatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants and children. In other words, Pediatrics is the medical specialty concerned with the development, care and treatment of children from birth through adolescence.
Childhood is the period of greatest growth, development and maturation of the various organ systems in the body. Years of training and experience (above and beyond basic medical training) goes into recognizing the difference between normal variants and what is actually pathological.
Another major difference between pediatrics and adult medicine is that children are minors and, in most jurisdictions, cannot make decisions for themselves. The issue of guardianship, legal responsibility and informed consent must always be considered in every pediatric procedure. In a sense, pediatricians often have to treat the parents (and sometimes, the family), not just the child.
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Virtual Pediatric Hospital Medical Textbooks Read online medical textbooks organized by specialty.
External Links
- SearchingPediatrics.com - Searching pediatric peer-reviewed information
- PediatricCommons - A community of pediatric learning, teaching, sharing and collaboration
- GeneralPediatrics.com - The general pediatrician's view of the Internet
- PediatricEducation.org - A pediatric digital library and learning collaboratory
- VirtualPediatricHospital - A digital library of pediatric information
- American Academy of Pediatrics — An organization of 57,000 pediatricians
- AAP - Publications from the AAP
- MedlinePlus - Children's Health
Modified from Wikipedia's article on Pediatrics Licensed under GNU FDL
