“In the past few years he had become conscious of the burden of his own body. He recognized the symptoms. He had read about them in textbooks, he had seen them confirmed in real life, in older patients with no history of serious ailments who suddenly began to describe perfect syndromes that seemed to come straight from medical texts and yet turned out to be imaginary. His professor of children’s clinical medicine at La Salpêtrière had recommended pediatrics as the most honest specialization, because children become sick only when in fact they are sick, and they cannot communicate with the physician using conventional words but only with concrete symptoms of real diseases.” ChildrenHealthDiseaseMedicineSymptomsPediatrics Book:Love in the Time of Cholera Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“...had recommended pediatrics as the most honest specialization, because children become sick only when in fact they are sick, and they cannot communicate with the physician using conventional words but only with concrete symptoms of real disease. After a certain age, however, adults either had the symptoms without the diseases or, what was worse, serious diseases with the symptoms of minor ones.” ChildrenMedicineSicknessPediatrics Book:Love in the Time of Cholera Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“Many children use an alternative vocabulary for complex disease names. Hence, some say "smiling mighty Jesus" in place of spinal meningitis or "Luke and Leia" instead of leukemia.” Pediatrics Author:Darshak Sanghavi
“Dr. Barbara Knox is a general pediatrics and forensic medicine expert. She is board certified in both general pediatrics and child abuse pediatrics.” PediatricsBarbaraknoxmdChildprotectionDrbarbaraknox Author:Dr. Barbara Knox