The earliest thing an infant learns to do, even before talking, is to: Communicate. It is something most of us struggle to perfect; and, are still learning as we close out our lives.
Research tells us that there may be as much Communication without words as with them. (Gestures, touch, body language, etc.)
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There is a lot more discussed these days in medical meetings than medicine!
The new topics include computers, credentialing, new governmental rules, insurance company policies to control medical costs, and political maneuverings. Now these topics are neither particularly new nor worrisome, but the list just doesn’t stop there.
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A major problem we have in pediatrics, I was told one time, is that: “we have raised a generation of grandmothers who have never even seen measles.”
I was speaking with a pediatric colleague of mine, and we were discussing the way grandparents provide a great deal of teaching to new parents as they raise their first few children. And a grandma who has actually seen a case of measles is a rare find.
I believe what my colleague said is true! Medicine has changed a great deal in even the past few years. Rubella and other diseases are not seen as much anymore.