From birth to age 15, your youngster can benefit from the expert and compassionate care offered by a pediatrician. Trained and experienced in the physiology, psychology, and health needs particular to childhood, your child’s doctor can actually improve a youngster’s life in many ways. Here are just six of them.
1. A Pediatrician Delivers Acute and Chronic Disease Management
This may be the first thing parents think of when they hear the word “pediatrician.” Pediatricians are board-certified physicians that deliver health care to children with acute conditions and injuries and also help manage chronic conditions like asthma, diabetes so that your child can have a fun and healthy childhood.
Your child’s doctor prescribes medicine, stitches minor cuts, diagnoses skin conditions, tests for strep infections, and so much more. Plus, the pediatrician helps parents triage health problems at home. For instance, does a fever in a three-year-old warrant an office visit? Should a specialist see the child for poor performance on a hearing test? Pediatricians play a key role in helping parents and caregivers decide what needs to be done and when.
2. A Pediatrician Performs Well-Child Visits
These periodic, in-office examinations track vital signs, growth and development, hearing, vision, strength, reflexes, and more. Children receive their routine vaccinations at well-child visits, and these appointments give both parent and child opportunity to discuss medical concerns and to ask questions about care.
3. A Pediatrician Delivers On-site Tests and Services
There’s no need for children to miss school or for parents to drive all over town for strep or COVID illness testing, wart removal, blood work, urinalysis and other services. The young patient can receive these and more at a fully staffed and equipped pediatrician’s office. Plus, a pediatricians and staff are trained in ways to make evaluations easier and quicker to keep children as calm and comfortable as possible during appointments.
4. Your Pediatrician Can Perform School and Sports Physicals
In order to attend school and participation in sports and many other organizations, your child needs a physical examination. Besides filling in the required paperwork for the school or club, your pediatrician makes sure your child is healthy enough to engage in his or her favorite activity. Plus, the doctor talks with the youngster about proper equipment, safe play, and more.
5. Your Pediatrician Makes Sure Your Child Is Protected
From car seats and bike helmets to stranger danger, online bullying and other problems of screen time, your pediatrician discusses many issues of child safety with parents and kids alike.
Frankly, online sources are not tailor-made to your child’s specific needs. So, the pediatrician can inform you and your youngster about hazards, nutrition, the benefits of sleep and exercise and more as is age appropriate. Our pediatric practice screens for mental health problems such as depression, and learning problems such as ADHD, and we refer to specialists who can help.
6. Your Pediatrician Provides Your Family a Medical Home
Your child’s doctor and support staff maintain your child’s electronic (paperless) medical record, or chart. It’s updated with current growth and development information, vaccine administration, referrals to specialists and other information pertinent to your child’s health and well-being. Plus, your pediatrician serves as a valuable partner in raising your child to adulthood. Care is fully accessible and equitable to all families, and your pediatrician works hard to keep costs down and advocates for excellent care in facilities, such as hospitals, urgent care facilities, therapy clinics, schools and more. In short, pediatricians really do strive to improve their patients’ lives in a variety of ways which extend beyond the examination room.
The Best Pediatrician in Purchase, NY
Find exceptional pediatric care at Westchester Park Pediatrics in Purchase, NY. Our team of six board-certified pediatricians deliver the medical care your child needs to grow and develop in a healthy way. We are accessible 24/7 to serve the needs of your newborn, child, or teen through age 15. We partner with BridgeSpan Medicine which cares for adolescents through age 21.
To make an appointment, call our friendly office staff at (914) 761-1717. We will get back to you as soon as possible. We look forward to caring for your child!
