Best Practice Pediatrics

In about five to 10 years, most primary care physicians will educate their patients by using group e-mail and the Internet. I think this is the best method with the least cost in informing parents about new advances in Pediatric health.

In my practice I have five groups of patients in our group e-mail program: Infants, Pre-School, School Age, Teens, and All.

When I have a health or useful news for my patients, I just write a letter using my MS word and "copy" it then "paste" it to New Message of my distribution list of Outlook.

Then I paste the name of the Distribution list at BCC (Blind copy) and put my name to Send To. By so doing, the e-mails of the parents will be hidden to all of the recipient.

Sample letter for the Infants group that I sent.

Baby Logic Basic

At an early age of 6 months old, we can teach babies the basic of logic using Lego or Mega Bloks or Lego.

Place your baby on the floor on her belly. From about six inches from her, place a RED block. Point and say, ‘RED.” Get a GREEN block. Place it near the RED one with about an inch space between the two. Point and say, “GREEN.”

Repeat this activity of pointing and saying, “RED, GREEN, RED, GREEN”

Then get one more RED and one more GREEN blocks. Now you have two REDs and two GREENs. Place them in a horizontal line, RED, GREEN, RED, GREEN. Point and say the RED, GREEN blocks.

Get another set of RED & GREEN blocks and place it in line with the rest of the four blocks. Now you have three REDs and three GREENs alternately in a horizontal line.

Repeat pointing and saying the RED and GREEN blocks at least four times a day for about a week.

After a week, get another set of RED and GREEN blocks and place it about six inches from the horizontal line of 6 RED and GREEN blocks alternately.

Now say, “We will get the RED and place it to the right of the GREEN block.” And do the actual placement of the RED block next to the GREEN one.

Then get the GREEN and place it next to the RED one. Repeat the same sequence.

By repeating this kind of activity you are showing your baby the basic of patterning or sequencing. This is an early form of baby logic.

With this new weapon of mass 'ducation (WMD) I can reach many parents and patients with few clicks of the mouse.

Parents love this new WMD which is easy to do. Sooner or later, most primary care physicians will be adopting this weapon.

Leo Leonidas, MD, FAAP, Bangor, Maine

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