Being a pediatrician means treating two patients at once: the child, and the parent’s anxiety

You’re not just managing fever, rashes, or growth charts. You’re navigating through:

– Parents who’ve read 47 blogs and now think teething causes pneumonia

– Grandparents who insist “we never needed vaccines in our time”

– And toddlers who are suddenly Olympic athletes the second you try to examine them :man_running::dashing_away:

You’ll spend 20 minutes calming a parent down, only for them to say, “But the homeopathy doctor said…” :neutral_face:

You’ll miss lunch because one newborn had a cough.

And still, you’ll smile, reassure, educate, and document — because every small victory in peds feels worth it.

But let’s be honest:

Pediatrics isn’t “easier” because they’re kids.

It’s harder because they’re tiny, fragile, and too precious


to mess up.

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