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"However, 70% did require pediatricians become board-certified at some point. Almost half (48%) of those that required board certification had a time frame within which certification was needed, but 42% did not. Of the 193 US health plans the researchers surveyed, 90% did not require general pediatricians to be board-certified when they were initially credentialed by the plan. Although 41% of the health plans required the pediatricians be certified at some point, the majority (61%) had no time frame in which this should happen." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"A few doctors, particularly pediatricians, got angry about it. pediatricians administer most immunizations, and some of them seemed to take it personally when Lynne raised doubts. It's not the snots, they insisted. Then why, Lynne asked, did there now appear to be a virtual epidemic of autism-with rates soaring far beyond those of her nursing school years? And why did that epidemic appear to start right around 1991, when a whole new batch of vaccinations had been mandated? The answer was quite simple, most of the doctors replied. There was no epidemic. Just better diagnosis." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Some integrative pediatricians are searching for healthier ways to treat the symptoms of even the most serious childhood illnesses, like cancer. Integrative pediatric oncologist Susan Sencer describes her field both as both "high tech" (meaning it requires access to the latest technology) and "high touch" (meaning it involves a personal, holistic approach that differs from child to child). In Minneapolis, Sencer and her coworkers use a variety of mind-body therapies to improve the quality of life of kids with cancer, including hypnosis, massage, acupuncture, and biofeedback. " - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Although these authors are leading pediatricians and experts on toxic chemicals, they showed no awareness of the toxic and carcinogenic risks of personal care products, except for in a brief reference to lead in hair dyes. In 2002, my co-author of the Safe Shopper's Bible, David Steinman, purchased two dozen products for babies and sent them to a laboratory to have them tested for the presence of two carcinogens, 1,4-dioxane and ethylene oxide. They were detected in eighteen of the baby products, though, as contaminents, they were not listed on any of the product labels." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"The next step is a more detailed evaluation to determine whether the child has ADD, ADHD, or another condition. Some pediatricians do the assessment themselves, but most refer their patients to a mental-health specialists such as a pediatric developmentalist, a psychologist, a psychiatrist, or even a neurologist. In most states, the school system has an obligation to assess your child at no cost to you. But you might also choose private evaluation if you feel this suits you and your family better." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.) "This doesn't need to happen, but with many pediatricians and parents looking for quick fixes to an overwhelming problem, too often it does. his parents dismissed his behavior as a phase he would outgrow or as a natural feature of his personality. You're probably thinking that playfulness and rowdiness are typical of most young children—and you're right. Parents take for granted that this is normal, and in most cases it is. Signs that the child's behavior should be watched with more caution usually emerge once he or she enters school." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"The cultural environment in which our lives unfold also plays a major role in determining our health. pediatricians and family doctors, for example, cannot possibly stem the tide of childhood obesity by themselves when advertisements for fast food and snack foods and vending machines containing high-calorie snacks saturate children's environment, presenting a far more compelling message." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Nowadays, when our children run into difficulties we often turn instead to physicians—family doctors, pediatricians, and, more rarely, psychiatrists?who may have minimal personal interest in or connection to the child, who may know little or nothing about children or families, and who too often handle distressed children clumsily at best. Having little time to spend with each child and typically knowing nothing else to do anyway, they become technologists administering drugs with much less acumen and even less success than an auto mechanic addressing a knocking sound in the motor." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "With unfortunate prescience, I added, "A drug's lack of proven efficacy in children, however, has never discouraged psychiatrists or pediatricians from liberally prescribing it. Neither has the inherent danger of exposing the growing brain to toxic substances."10 The FDA should have come out with an unqualified warning not to prescribe the newer antidepressants to children. It could have required the labels to announce, "Contraindicated in Children and Youth"—meaning, never to be prescribed to children and youth." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Nobody else was telling them that-certainly not the vast majority of pediatricians, who still seemed collectively stunned by the new tidal waves of autism, ADHD, asthma, and allergies that were swamping their offices. As Liza and Alisa sat down in my office for their first appointment, I could tell right away that Liza was one of the most medically sophisticated parents that I had yet met. Nonetheless, she was still struggling with Alisa's treatment." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "However, doubts about the HIB vaccination may account for the fact that approximately one in every twenty pediatricians now refuses to give the vaccination to his or her own children. Around the time Aniyka was diagnosed with diabetes, Anju had her fourth and final child, Rajan. She refused to allow him to be vaccinated. In a bittersweet irony, Rajan has remained abundantly healthy, and is notably larger and stronger than his older sisters. In September 2001, Priya walked into the lunchroom at school and her chest began to tighten. Her throat felt thick and clogged. She began to wheeze." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"You'll find pediatricians who hand out free sample six-packs of infant formula to new mothers; you'll find pediatricians who insist that newborns waste their sucking reflex and energy on sugar-water bottles; you'll find pediatricians who push free "supplementary formula" kits on mothers who are breastfeeding; and you'll find pediatricians who discourage a mother from breastfeeding if her baby doesn't gain as much weight as the manual provided by the formula company says it should." - Robert Mendelsohn, Confessions of a Medical Heretic (Get the book.)

"While written to help pediatricians recognize various environmental threats to their young patients' health, parents would benefit from familiarizing themselves with its contents, too. You can buy this essential text on the AAP's Web site (www.aap.org/bst/showdetl.cfm?&DID= 15&Product_ID= 1697). General Homeopathy For basic information on the principles of homeopathy, visit the federal government's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine's Web site (www.nccam.nih.gov), which gives an overview of this branch of alternative medicine." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"When we gave him the proper homeopathic remedy, removed sugar from his diet, and gave him a little cod liver oil, the pediatricians and specialists who had been following him for his ear infections and asthma were amazed at how beautifully he did; he turned out not to require tubes in his ears, which they had recommended. Also, his attention deficit and concentration span improved." Dr. Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman has treated hundreds of ADHD children homeopathically. She is worried, first of all, about overdiagnosis. " - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Today, integrative pediatricians are still a minority, but I predict that one day not too far in the future, they'll enter the mainstream of pediatric medicine. And when that happens, our kids will benefit across the board. Vaccinations: Medicine's Greatest Achievement or Too Much of a Good Thing? In this section, I want to talk to you candidly about what is likely to be your baby's first, and perhaps most important, medical intervention: vaccinations." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"This makes me wonder what's appropriate for children. pediatricians recommend that children two or younger drink whole milk, and you mention only low-fat. What's the story? Also, what about cheese for kids? A: Dairy isn't as healthy as lean meat and vegetables because of the sugar factor. The lactose in milk is a simple sugar. Milk is a complete nutritional package for children younger than one, but it also provides excess sugar that they don't need after the first year of life. The combo of simple sugar and protein promotes insulin resistance." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"But regrettably, Big Pharma—working with the mental health community, pediatricians, psychologists, and nurses—have pathologized normal behavior as a result of this pernicious effort, and virtually any child can be diagnosed with a mental disorder. Dr. Lendon Smith attributed the increase in cases to the toxic overload created by environmental chemicals. He was particularly adamant about the magnesium deficiencies that have occurred in many children as a result of environmental poisoning. "Today there are more children who are chronically depressed than there were in the past," Dr." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"They told him to call on pediatricians and ask them to prescribe the epilepsy drug to children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. They asked him to press psychiatrists to prescribe it for bipolar disorder. They told him to urge primary care doctors to prescribe it to patients debilitated by migraines. The information that Franklin and the other medical liaisons were told to give to doctors about these experimental uses for Neurontin consisted mostly of case reports involving a few handfuls of patients at best." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "Charles Grose wrote of the physicians' nightmare in a newsletter sent to the state's pediatricians a few months later. He said that one child had died not from the flu but from a mutant strain of staph known as MRSA that had grown resistant to many antibiotics. Another child, Dr. Grose said, had died from a bacterial strep infection so vicious that it had killed its victim even before doctors could start treatment. Other physicians found, he said, that a powerful antibiotic called Rocephin had failed to work in three young patients." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "Pfizer sales representatives succeeded in getting so many pediatricians to hang small plastic replicas of Max from their stethoscopes that one physician told me a family had asked if Max was the hospital's mascot. The company had even donated a real zebra to the San Francisco Zoo and invited children to a party where the beast was welcomed and named Max. But Pfizer had not stopped there. It paid for fifteen-second advertisements that ran at the beginning and end of Sesame Street." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "A story published in the foundation's glossy magazine that I picked up at a pediatricians' conference in 2005 was entitled "Me and My Growth Hormone." The story began, "I was short. My little sister was taller than me. Kids at school picked on me and called me names." The tale continued with the child getting growth hormone injections and growing so much his pants got too short. "I'm almost grown now," the story ended. "I'm in the normal range on a growth chart. Growth hormone is like a miracle drug." Other clandestine pharmaceutical marketing occurred on Iowa's university campuses." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"The American Medical Association (AMA) also counts pediatricians and obstetrician-gynecologists as primary care physicians. It is a growing—and evolving—profession. In the United States, in 1998, there were 264,000 primary care physicians, almost double the number from 1970. Of these, the most common specialty was internal medicine, 100,000 (41% of the total), followed by 66,000 (21%) in family practice—a specialty that did not exist in 1970. Only 6% listed their specialty as "general practice," a decline of 71% from 1970." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "Another 18% were to specialists in internal medicine, 10% to pediatricians, 8% to obstetrician-gynecologists, and 7% to ophthalmologists. Many of these visits were for primary care.4 That's a lot of office visits. What happens when you get to your physician's office? We would hope that your interaction with the doctor is thorough and nuanced. It isn't. The average office visit lasts only 19 minutes.5 During the physician's exam, the patient does little talking. A Swedish study found that physicians interrupt their patients' presentations after an average of only 22 seconds." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Of the 193 US health plans the researchers surveyed, 90% did not require general pediatricians to be board-certified when they were initially credentialed by the plan. Although 41% of the health plans required the pediatricians be certified at some point, the majority (61%) had no time frame in which this should happen. Only 40% of health plans require subspecialists to become board-certified. "It appears that many hospitals and many health plans are not using the tools that are available to them to help ensure that the public has the highest quality of care that can be provided," says Freed." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"But in recent years, many pediatricians have begun to recommend that these vaccines be spaced out more, at wider intervals. After all, a vaccination might be perfectly safe on its own but potentially toxic when administered in combination with four or five other shots, and the combined effect of these vaccines has never been tested. Adults wouldn't accept five immunizations at once. Why would we treat our children by a lesser standard? One of the solutions, Dr." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Source: Bundesinstitut fur Arzneimittel and Medizinprodukte, Bundesopiumstelle, Germany) Systematic marketing (target-market: pediatricians) made this "success" possible. In the USA, the numbers don't look much different. So you see, there is a brutal, uncompromising market going on - with billions of dollars to be earned! But what is the exact know-how behind this marketing, a know-how that is brilliant and evil at the same time? Good question! But for now let us read interviews from two experts on children. The topic that is most explosive: ADD! DR. ARLEN J." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Pediatricians and family practice doctors were at the bottom of the salary heap, and cardiologists and radiologists were at the top, with other specialists ranged in between. The more patients a doctor saw over the course of a year, the more the group earned as a whole from PPO and fee-for-service plans and the higher the individual physician's pay. A few of their patients were still in capitated plans, which meant the group was paid a flat fee for each of those patients." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "The primary care doctors—the pediatricians, general internists, and family practitioners— weren't permitted to send a patient to a specialist as they saw fit. Now, they had to get permission from the insurance company—from some clerk who sometimes had nothing more than a high school education. They had to refer their patients to specialists who appeared on a list of insurance companies' "in-network" doctors, whatever that meant—all they knew was they were sending their patients to doctors they had never met and therefore couldn't entirely trust." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

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