I am a doctor for the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents
Are you a pediatrician?
Yes, i am a "healer of children"
What is the biggest threat, disease wise, for today's children?
, healer"). Pediatricians work both in hospitals, particularly those working in its subspecialties such as neonatology, and as outpatient primary care physicians.
History.
Already Hippocrates, Aristotle, Celsus, Soranus, and Galen understood the differences in growing and maturing organisms that necessitated different treatment: "" ("In general, boys should not be treated in the same way as men").
Some of the oldest traces of pediatrics can be discovered in Ancient India where children's doctors were called "kumara bhrtya
Pediatrics
Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pædiatrics) is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends people be under pediatric care up to the age of 21. A medical doctor who specializes in this area is known as a pediatrician, or paediatrician. The word "pediatrics" and its cognates mean "healer of children"; they derive from two Greek words: ("pais" "child") and ("iatros" "doctor