209: National Child Health Day

Episode 209 featuring two pediatric physicians -- Available on iTunes

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In this episode, Radio Rounds presented a special feature episode on pediatrics — in recognition of National Child Health Day, which falls by tradition on the first Monday of October every year.

This childhood health episode naturally featured a pair of interviews with pediatricians. In the first, we spoke with Dr. Joel Fein, an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and an Attending Physician in the Emergency Department at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

Dr. Fein discussed his interests regarding mental health screening and violence prevention, and as the conversation progressed, it became evident that working in a major urban pediatric emergency department is far from — shall we say — child’s play. One study he discussed involved the use of an interactive voice response tool to followup with patients, and right on cue, the results from that study were published this week in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine.

You can find that published paper at this link on PubMed.

Our second guest for the episode was Dr. Shalini Forbis, who joined us from the Children’s Medical Center here in Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Forbis highlighted the aspects of pediatrics that make it so worthwhile for her and her colleagues — the ability to positively impact the health of young individuals for life and the benefit of health education and health literacy for patients and their families.