Pediatrician vs. Family Doctor

Each day, medical research is taken to new and improved levels changing life as we know it. The experiments grow ─along with technology─ and shape this world for the better. Since no one in this world is alike, treatments are being discovered to take care of patients in their own ways. To fit with all these differentiated needs, healthcare has been broken up into multiple categories. Each section is specifically responsible for the unique care of patients but the end goal over all, is the same (treating others). One of the best known units of healthcare that is needed today is Pediatrics. Children under the age of five in America receive better healthcare from their pediatrician than an average family doctor. The specialist in the medical field came to this conclusion by stating that a pediatrician has the specialized knowledge needed in caring for the youth population. As I prove this study to be factual, my research paper will explain how pediatrics came about over time, how much of an alteration there is between a pediatrician and a family doctor, and why this particular care is essential to all children.

When Hippocrates discovered that the growing and maturing organisms needed a special attention ─rather than the already developed organisms─ hospitals began creating separate shelters for children to be cared for in. At this time, “…the world had no idea they would be saving so many lives in the future” (Hope Lives Here). In the year of 1802, Hôpital des Enfants Malades (French for Hospital for Sick Children), was opened in Paris to separate the children from the adults. “Before these buildings were opened, most illnesses that children contracted were treated at home because infants and children admitted to adult hospitals of...

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...ive better healthcare from a pediatrician than a family doctor.

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