Tag: National Institute for Child Health and Development
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The origins of pediatrics as a clinical and academic specialty in the United States
Colin PhoonNew York, USA In the long timeline of medicine, pediatrics is a recent clinical field. The first children’s hospital in the world was established in Paris in 1802, followed by the Hospital for Sick Children on Great Ormond Street in London in 1852.1 Rightfully so, many ascribe the birth of American pediatrics to the…