I think pediatricians are jaded and don’t understand how miraculous pediatric hospital care really is. If they did they would be fighting harder to protect their hospitals.

I trained in med/peds, which means I did a combined residency in both internal medicine and pediatrics.
I am board certified in both pediatrics and internal medicine.

By and large, a large share of patients treated at adult hospitals have a limited lifespan as a result of age or severity of disease.

This isn’t the case in pediatric hospitals.
This is why I keep screaming from rooftops about flattening the pediatric covid curve.

We need to preserve our pediatric hospitals’ ability to care for EVERY child that needs care.

This really matters.
And this is why I am so angry at the @AmerAcadPeds for prioritizing in-person school over protecting pediatric hospitals.
By the way, pediatricians don’t really trust us meds/peds-ers because we think differently than they do. 😂

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