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AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics) recommends Most certified pediatricians in the USA are members of the AAP. When you are looking for a pediatrician the AAP recommends to ask these questions: Is the pediatrician accepting new patients with your insurance or managed care plan? What are the office hours? Is emergency coverage available 24-7? Do nurses screen phone calls? Does the practice have an after-hours answering service, and is that service linked to a university or children’s hospital? Where are patients referred after hours? Is there access to specialists and intensive care if needed? What is background of the pediatrician? Does he/she have a subspecialty or area of pediatric interest? To what hospital does she/he admit patients? Is she/he board certified through the American Board of Pediatrics? I agree with the above recommendations, however, I would add the following: Is the pediatrician in practice longer than five years? Can the pediatrician see a patient the same day if mom is concerned? Are they using electronic medical records and have computers at each examining room with T1, cable, or DSL connection? Is the waiting time less than 30 minutes? How long do they return urgent phone calls, within the hour or longer? Do they have their own web site that has preventive advices and commonly asked questions? Are they accepting e mails? Can they communicate through e mails (only first name are mentioned, not the last name)? Do they use the American Academy of Pediatrics software on Preventive advice? Do they advocate the Bright Future? Leo Leonidas, MD, FAAP, Assistant Clinical Professor in Pediatrics, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston; Attending Pediatrician, Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor, Maine Please send your suggestions and comments to improve this site: I wrote and designed this web site for parents of our practice. Before you use ideas from this web site, please discuss it first with your clinician if you are not with our practice. copyright Leo Leonidas 2002
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