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There are so many good things about being a pediatrician that it’d be really hard to list them all out, but here is my personal Top 10 Reasons Why It’s Great To Be A Pediatrician list:Much like making small course corrections at the beginning of a long journey that have a big impact on the destination, your impact on children and families can be huge (great story about this below).Cute feet. Seriously - have you ever seen the feet of old people? Ugh.The smell. Kids smell so much better than adults. Put a child in the hospital for a week and they still smell good. Put a 50 year old in the hospital for a week. Ugh.The giggles and smiles. Cold stethoscope + ticklish child = the best giggles and smiles in the world.Most children are healthy and stay healthy. While horrible and tragic thing can happen, and while children can have terrible chronic diseases, the majority of the children stay and remain healthy. As a corollary, most children have only one thing wrong at a time. You’re not trying to manage diabetes, coronary artery disease, and emphysema all at once.Families extend your reach. It’s hard, taking care of adults, especially older adults, because they’re unreliable historians, and because they are balancing their adult lives and responsibilities with their approach to health care. Children, on the other hand, often have parents and grandparents or others family members who can be your eyes and ears and historians and medicine givers and appointment keepers.Honesty. Kids are honest. They tell you the straight truth. And they’re rarely suspicious of the health care team or “the system”. You get the benefit of the doubt and their trust, which is essential for helping them.Watching them grow and thrive. If you’re lucky, you have some patients who stay in your lives for many years. I cherish every photo, holiday card, and note from patients I’ve taken care of 10 years ago.Lack of existential crises. Kids live in the now, and don’t carry nearly as many past injuries or fears of the future with them.NEW BABIES. Seriously - is there anything better than seeing a pristine new life enter the world? It’s the most humanizing thing and you get to experience it over and over again!The story: My father was a pediatrician in New Jersey, long since retired. I live in Seattle. A few years ago, my family accompanied me to a medical meeting in Orlando. We pulled up at the hotel in our rental car and one of the valet parking attendants came up to help get our car parked and our bags unloaded. I noticed on his nametag that he was from the next town over in NJ to where I grew up, and so I chatted with him and said that I was from East Brunswick, NJ. We spoke for a moment or two, and then he was ready to take the car. He asked for my last name and I told him, and then he said, “Wow. When I was a kid, I had a doctor with the same last name.” I was stunned. I said, “That was my father.” And it was. My father, 30 years prior, had taken care of this gentleman and all of his siblings, and he went on and on about how much his mother loved having my father as their family’s pediatrician. It was such a stunning coincidence, and so memorable, that I took a photo. It made me realize the impact that my father, and pediatricians in general, could have on people’s lives.

I agree with the answers already provided.Being a Paediatrician is actually quite surreal. You have to understand the mind of the child and parent whilst also being professional but fun! It’s a wonderful job :) :)Paediatricians have to be flexible; opportunistically examining patients e.g. listen to the heart if they are already fast asleep,if they are comfy on Mum/Dads lap then leave them there, use toys and fun things to engage them and make them feel safe.You have to be able to adapt to any situation! Also, you have to anticipate common things (taking the nappy off will almost always result in a wonderful wee…if you were thinking a urine specimen might be needed, keep the urine-pot handy for such circumstances!).The ability to multitask and think ahead are vital for a Paediatrician!Often the workload is significantly high and being able to support junior colleagues is the key to a smooth day.As was already mentioned; you deal with very well and very sick patients. Being able to deal with that kind of stress whether in the delivery room, resus room, ward or clinic is something you have to get used to flipping in between. You might be congratulating the birth of a beautiful baby and doing a newborn check one minute, then the bleep goes and you’re attending a neonatal crash call that has a poor outcome. You must be resilient yet empathetic.Safeguarding is the fear of every paediatrician. It just reminds you what a horrid world we live in. To witness or find the cruelty that some children and young people are subject to is absolutely heart sinking. Remaining professional and compassionate is what gets you through and allows you to do the best for your patient and family.It’s an emotionally charged speciality. It’s great to have emotion and one should never strive to become cold or unaffected (and that’s the day you should stop being a Paediatrician). It’s this emotion that aids your gut-feeling when it comes to a diagnosis, the tone and manner in which you speak to frightened parents and vulnerable children.Being a peoples-person helps in Paediatrics. Day in and day out your communication skills are tested; you must have excellent child and parent communication skills. The Paediatricians with the most complaints, are the rude, abrupt, non-compassionate ones who stand out for the wrong reasons. Their knowledge may be great, but if your people skills aren’t, you can’t survive.You have to dig deep when taking a history, not just the standard medical history subheadings, but all the things to do with the family and their circumstance. You have to take on board and elicit the parents difficulties, their own health and be tuned in to what environment this child or young person is living in. It really matters.A good paediatrician looks at the child holistically and as part of a family. They have a broad-based thinking and don’t just hone in on one thing. If you don’t look at the bigger picture, you’ll miss something even bigger.Professionally, a good paediatrician will educationally better themselves (attending good conferences, courses, contributing academically on a local and global level).You have to be the kind, fun and competent detective. You are the child’s advocate and their best interests have to be at the heart of anything and everything you do.Being smiley and knowing the latest nursery rhymes, kids TV programmes, football teams etc are all powerful tools…Best job in the world :) :) :) :) :)