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===Definition=== | |||
Paediatrics is medicine of children, the definition of children being debatable depending on who you ask. A 17 year-old with a rib fracture is likely to be treated as an adult despite legally being a child. The first rule of paediatrics is that '''children are not little adults'''. Do not treat them as such - medicine is different with children and treating them as small adults will annoy and frustrate your consultants. | |||
For the purposes of this website, | ===Categories=== | ||
For the purposes of this website, we have created special Paediatric categories. The categories are roughly the same as the adult ones with a few extras and a few taken out, and : | |||
*[[Cardiology (Paediatric)|Cardiology]] | *[[Cardiology (Paediatric)|Cardiology]] | ||
Revision as of 10:43, 18 August 2008
Definition
Paediatrics is medicine of children, the definition of children being debatable depending on who you ask. A 17 year-old with a rib fracture is likely to be treated as an adult despite legally being a child. The first rule of paediatrics is that children are not little adults. Do not treat them as such - medicine is different with children and treating them as small adults will annoy and frustrate your consultants.
Categories
For the purposes of this website, we have created special Paediatric categories. The categories are roughly the same as the adult ones with a few extras and a few taken out, and :