Word: pediatrician
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...traditionally has been concerned mainly with vaccinations and microbes-small problems in San Mateo. The water was good; the war-exploded population, 95% white, consisted mainly of well-educated, well-paid business and professional people. The women kept spotless kitchens and conscientiously took their well-scrubbed children to the pediatrician for inoculations. What was there for a public health officer...
President Villeda Morales, a pediatrician turned reform politician, almost made it; the coup came only ten days before elections to choose a new President. It undid six years of hard work to change the banana republic's image of mud-hut misery, one-crop economics and machine gun politics...
Prise Hartshorn, an ardent New Dealer, decides her baby should be weaned the modern way, on a bottle. Her husband, Sloan, a pediatrician, insists on breast feeting. "There was a side of Sloan, she had decided, that she mistrusted, a side that could be summed up by saying that he was a Republican. Up to now this had not mattered; most men she knew were Republicans--it was almost part of being a man. But she did not like the thought of a Republican controlling the destinies of a helpless baby...
...Massachusetts now do the heel test before discharging a baby. But the child may then be no more than four days old, which is a little too early for PKU to be detected with certainty. Hence the advice to the mother: take the month-old baby to a pediatrician for a second test. In case the mother has no pediatrician, or feels she cannot afford to use one, the health department gives her an alternative. Along with the explanatory leaflet the mother gets some filter paper, with instructions to put a piece inside the baby's diaper. After...
...Membrane. It is usually possible to tell within an hour after birth whether a preemie (or occasionally a full-term baby) is running into respiratory difficulties. His breathing gets faster and shallower; he may grunt on every exhalation or froth at the lips. In Patrick Kennedy's case, Pediatrician James Drorbaugh saw enough alarming signs to order him rushed, in an Isolette, to Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston...