A Shortage of Pediatric Specialists? Is That the REAL Problem???

Let me digress.  This is not a magazine I would pay for, as it is completely funded by the pharmaceutical industry, loaded with ads for prescription and over-the-counter drugs and I wouldn’t trust one word of medical advice that comes out of it.

The subscription was free with the purchase of a toy drum set for my son so I get the magazine in the mail, throw it in the magazine rack in the bathroom and read it for a few minutes a day to pass the time.

So, back to the point.  This article was highlighting the devastating shortage of Pediatric Specialists such as dermatologists, allergists, cardiovascular surgeons and so on.

The article started out by telling one woman’s story of how her child had to wait six weeks to get an appointment with a dermatologist. In that six weeks time, without a prescription drug from this dermatologist her son’s simple eczema advanced into painful, bleeding eczema.

Really?  I mean, really?  There was no other alternative on God’s green earth besides a prescription drug from the dermatologist?

What causes one mother to pursue every alternative medicine possible and leave the conventional doctor as a last resort while another mother cannot think outside of that dermatologist appointment even when her son’s lesions are painful and bleeding?

What causes one mother to question everything while another mother just accepts the fate that both of her children, from birth, have suffered from recurrent bouts with eczema and a doctor’s prescription is the only thing that will stop it?

Has that mother ever asked what causes this and what can I do to support my children’s immune systems so that we can stop this vicious cycle instead of masking it with drugs over and over and over?

Would that doctor even know how to answer those questions?

Don’t get me wrong, my heart goes out to parents with seriously ill children but I still think the wool is being pulled over our eyes with articles like this.

So, I challenge that a shortage of pediatric specialists is not the real problem.  The real problem is the devastating state of our children’s health and the even more devastating lack of knowledge and responsibility for the fact that we can do something to save our children’s health.  Knowledge and responsibility on the part of our doctors and our parents.

What do you think?

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