
Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pædiatrics) is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants and child. The word pediatrics is derived from two Greek language words ''paidos'' which means little boy and ''iatros'' which means doctor. Most pediatricians are members of a national body, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Canadian Paediatric Society, the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons, the Royal College Of Paediatrics and Child Health or the Indian Academy of Pediatrics. One of the major challenges facing pediatricians is that the range of body sizes (and weights) that they face in pediatrics is much greater than in adult medicine. For example, a preterm neonate can be less than 2kg in weight while an obese adolescent may be larger than the typical adult. Childhood is the period of greatest growth, development and maturation of the various organ systems in the body. Years of training and experience (above and beyond basic medical training) goes into recognizing the difference between normal variants and what is actually pathology. Another major difference between pediatrics and adult medicine is that children are minors and, in most jurisdictions, cannot make decisions for themselves. The issue of guardianship, legal responsibility and informed consent must always be considered in every pediatric procedure. In a sense, pediatricians often have to treat the parents (and sometimes, the family), not just the child. In a bizarre event, during the News of the World anti-pedophile campaign of 2000, the home of a pediatrician was attacked by protesters who'd confused the terms pediatrician and pedophile. Abraham Jacobi is considered the father of pediatrics. == External links == * GeneralPediatrics.com - [http://www.generalpediatrics.com The General Pediatrician's View of the Internet ] * PediatricEducation.org - [http://www.pediatriceducation.org A Pediatric Digital Library and Learning Collaboratory intended to serve as a source of continuing pediatric education] * Royal College of Paediatrics website - [http://www.rcpch.ac.uk Homepage for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health] Pediatrics
Medical specialties Childhood
==Category:Paediatrics== Most of the articles in this category were originally in Category:Paediatrics but on December 28, 2004, that category was listed for renaming to this category. The consensus was to rename. The discussion from Wikipedia:Categories for deletion follows. User:RedWolf 06:02, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC) ---- Main article is at pediatrics. There's currently a soft-redirect from :Category:Pediatrics. A spelling convention should be chosen. As writing the article was likely a bigger task than creating the category, I vote that we conform to the article naming, and move Paediatrics to Pediatrics, leaving a soft-redirect in place, as it is now, but on the opposite article. — User:Grendelkhan|User_talk:Grendelkhan 03:10, 2004 Dec 28 (UTC) *Keep, Wikipedia accepts both International and American spelling. - User:SimonP 20:04, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC) *Rename to align with article name. --User:Ssd 15:31, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC) *Keep and rename article. The two should have the same name, but redirects work far better on articles than on categories. User:Grutness|User_talk:Grutness 13:27, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC) *:I agree in that I think the article name and the category name should be aligned. However, I' m not as certain which way it should go, and on reflection, the soft redirect needs to be kept and/or recreated either way. --User:Ssd 05:21, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC) * We could just rename everything ''pædiatrics''. (note: æ is actually English, if disused) User:132.205.15.43 02:24, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC) **Not so much disused as rare (sadly - words like amœba and encyclopædia just look ''wrong'' without the ligature!). But I think that'd just add a further complication. User:Grutness|User_talk:Grutness 13:33, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC) *Rename to align with article name. User:NeutralityUser talk:Neutrality 05:42, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC) *Rename. User:Etz Haim 06:11, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC) *Keep. User:Proteus User_talk:Proteus 10:28, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC) *Keep. If I see something starting with 'ped-', I always think it's going to be about feet. User:Noisy | User talk:Noisy 10:41, Jan 23, 2005 (UTC) *Keep Pediatrics looks like a childish ;-) spelling to me. How come everything has already! been moved out of :Category:Paediatrics? User:Jooler 12:29, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC) The category seems to have been emptied by January 19, which was beyond the 7 day period and at that point, Rename seems to have garnered sufficient support (barely perhaps). The 3 Keeps were submitted well after the standard voting period. User:RedWolf 00:44, Jan 28, 2005 (UTC) ----
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Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pædiatrics) is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants and child. The word pediatrics is derived from two Greek language words ''paidos'' which means little boy and ''iatros'' which means doctor. Most pediatricians are members of a national body, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Canadian Paediatric Society, the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons, the Royal College Of Paediatrics and Child Health or the Indian Academy of Pediatrics. One of the major challenges facing pediatricians is that the range of body sizes (and weights) that they face in pediatrics is much greater than in adult medicine. For example, a preterm neonate can be less than 2kg in weight while an obese adolescent may be larger than the typical adult. Childhood is the period of greatest growth, development and maturation of the various organ systems in the body. Years of training and experience (above and beyond basic medical training) goes into recognizing the difference between normal variants and what is actually pathology. Another major difference between pediatrics and adult medicine is that children are minors and, in most jurisdictions, cannot make decisions for themselves. The issue of guardianship, legal responsibility and informed consent must always be considered in every pediatric procedure. In a sense, pediatricians often have to treat the parents (and sometimes, the family), not just the child. In a bizarre event, during the News of the World anti-pedophile campaign of 2000, the home of a pediatrician was attacked by protesters who'd confused the terms pediatrician and pedophile. Abraham Jacobi is considered the father of pediatrics. == External links == * GeneralPediatrics.com - [http://www.generalpediatrics.com The General Pediatrician's View of the Internet ] * PediatricEducation.org - [http://www.pediatriceducation.org A Pediatric Digital Library and Learning Collaboratory intended to serve as a source of continuing pediatric education] * Royal College of Paediatrics website - [http://www.rcpch.ac.uk Homepage for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health] Pediatrics
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Medical specialties Childhood
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==Category:Paediatrics== Most of the articles in this category were originally in Category:Paediatrics but on December 28, 2004, that category was listed for renaming to this category. The consensus was to rename. The discussion from Wikipedia:Categories for deletion follows. User:RedWolf 06:02, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC) ---- Main article is at pediatrics. There's currently a soft-redirect from :Category:Pediatrics. A spelling convention should be chosen. As writing the article was likely a bigger task than creating the category, I vote that we conform to the article naming, and move Paediatrics to Pediatrics, leaving a soft-redirect in place, as it is now, but on the opposite article. — User:Grendelkhan|User_talk:Grendelkhan 03:10, 2004 Dec 28 (UTC) *Keep, Wikipedia accepts both International and American spelling. - User:SimonP 20:04, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC) *Rename to align with article name. --User:Ssd 15:31, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC) *Keep and rename article. The two should have the same name, but redirects work far better on articles than on categories. User:Grutness|User_talk:Grutness 13:27, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC) *:I agree in that I think the article name and the category name should be aligned. However, I' m not as certain which way it should go, and on reflection, the soft redirect needs to be kept and/or recreated either way. --User:Ssd 05:21, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC) * We could just rename everything ''pædiatrics''. (note: æ is actually English, if disused) User:132.205.15.43 02:24, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC) **Not so much disused as rare (sadly - words like amœba and encyclopædia just look ''wrong'' without the ligature!). But I think that'd just add a further complication. User:Grutness|User_talk:Grutness 13:33, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC) *Rename to align with article name. User:NeutralityUser talk:Neutrality 05:42, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC) *Rename. User:Etz Haim 06:11, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC) *Keep. User:Proteus User_talk:Proteus 10:28, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC) *Keep. If I see something starting with 'ped-', I always think it's going to be about feet. User:Noisy | User talk:Noisy 10:41, Jan 23, 2005 (UTC) *Keep Pediatrics looks like a childish ;-) spelling to me. How come everything has already! been moved out of :Category:Paediatrics? User:Jooler 12:29, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC) The category seems to have been emptied by January 19, which was beyond the 7 day period and at that point, Rename seems to have garnered sufficient support (barely perhaps). The 3 Keeps were submitted well after the standard voting period. User:RedWolf 00:44, Jan 28, 2005 (UTC) ----
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