Hello, and welcome to Pediatric House Calls. I am…
A Physician board certified in Pediatric medicine with Clinical experience including caring for infants, children and teens – well these days mostly children and teens up to twenty-one;
An Administrator experienced in top medical management for several national health insurance companies;
An Author of health care manuals, newspaper columns and even children's stories;
A Business Medical Consultant for drug companies, insurance companies and
physician practices;
A Veteran of the US Navy in the Vietnam era;
And…
I make House-Calls.
At this time in my career I’ve learned to be a bit suspicious of what I read, especially in “non-official,” news publications – even if they are medically related like these three that I’ll mention today about diabetes.
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[Site no longer active – camped on by some recruiter] At the behest of an altruistic humanitarian doing work with the poor in the tenements of New York’s Lower East Side, Lina Rogers RN entered the schools to see if she could make a difference in October of 1902 – dressings were changed (rat bites), contagious students were dismissed with follow-up education on hygiene and prevention, the community assisted children without food or clothing and older children staying home to care for younger children while their parents worked were sought out.
Within six months, absenteeism fell by 90 percent, and the school board agreed to supply funds for 27 nurses. By 1914, there were close to 400 nurses in the schools of New York City. Other towns followed quickly, Los Angeles hiring its first in 1904. It all started with Lina Rogers RN, the first school nurse.
[Site no longer active – which makes me sorry, you should have seen it in it’s day!]
Be safe – Don’t wear a mask
I remember when my elementary school had a school nurse that we could go to for “boo-boo’s” and other things like shots. She was the one who called our parents to see what was wrong if we weren’t at school and checked our eyes each year to make sure we could see the blackboard.
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I’m sure you realize that it’s pretty much impossible to predict which of the hundreds of variants of influenza virus will “win out” and spread throughout the world in any given year – or which flu shot vaccine we should begin making nearly a year in advance!
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It was quite some time ago now (almost two years) that I accidentally ran across a posting on one of the many “mommy blogs” entitled “Five Things Dad’s Should Teach Their Sons” and decided to think about linking to it in some way.
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