Pediatrician

TORONTO — Pediatrics is facing a “workforce crisis,” an expert told Healio at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.

Since I was a little girl, I wanted to be a pediatrician. My father was a carpenter, and my mother worked for the state. No one in my family has ever been to medical school, so I was in uncharted waters.

The AAP released a public service announcement depicting parents who get their children caught up on vaccines as superheroes.

The AAP opposed an HHS decision authorizing all state-licensed pharmacists to order and administer vaccines to children aged 3 to 18 years.

Children in a New England state were less likely to be seen by family physicians, particularly in rural areas, according to an analysis recently published in Annals of Family Medicine.