A Career As A Pediatrician

Pediatricians are a branch of health care that focuses on children from birth to the age of 18-21. Pediatricians are more than just baby doctors, the job of a pediatrician is focused towards a developing body, therefore it is very different from the person who is 34 years old because that person is fully developed. When a baby is born, an infant has 300 bones, and an adult has 206 because of the fusion of the bones due to cartilage. A vast difference from a baby to an adult. Pediatricians are vital health care providers for children and adults alike.

The requirements to being a pediatrician of course, a pediatrician would have to be in school for at least 8 years, 4 years of college, graduate with a bachelor 's degree and after college …show more content…
Being a pediatrician has not just cured sick babies, it is keeping up with mental and physical health, but the reason there are pediatricians is to help reduce infant and child mortality rate, control infectious diseases, and to help ease the difficulties of children and adolescents with chronic conditions. By doing this, a pediatrician is expected to diagnose and treat infections, injuries, genetic defects, malignancies/ cancers, organic diseases and dysfunctions, developmental disorders, functional problems, social stresses and mental illnesses. When you’re a pediatrician parents are patients are depending on complete honesty, no matter how dangerous an infection or illness may be, for this you must be sympathetic and careful on your approach with the truth and be aware that you are going to be completely supportive of the family and patients in your care. There needs to be collaboration with the family, which is another quality next to support because you are trying to help cure and fight a disease, virus, chronic illnesses and so on, have the child know you will be with them through the entire path of fighting off illnesses, have them know that you’re going to help them build strengths for what the child is diagnosed with. A child does not understand what everything means yet, but with the help of a pediatrician they can help the child understand that this is …show more content…
This branch of health care is quite time consuming and stressful, it is imperative that as a pediatrician you must be able to set arrangements for check ups for the patient and peremptory that you are available for those check ups and to not let your patients