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Episode 169 | Dr. Kelly Fradin - Building Trusted Relationships with your child’s Pediatrician
Child Life On Call: Parents of children with an illness or medical condition share their stories with a child life specialist
English - May 10, 2023 06:00 - 42 minutes - 58.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 78 ratingsParenting Kids & Family Health & Fitness Medicine nurse parents resident cancer child childlife childlifespecialist condition disease doctor Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On this week's episode, Katie and Co-Host Serheen Noor Ali from Hello Sleuth interview Dr. Kelly Fradin about building trusted relationships with your child's pediatrician. Dr. Fradin shines a light on parent and patient experiences through being a physician in public health and in private practice. She touches on ways to have productive conversations with your child's pediatrician to create a lasting and effective relationship.
[4:00] Introductions
[6:45] Barriers her patients were experiencing
[9:00] Information to create independence and confidence
[9:24] Reading your audience as a Pediatrician
[11:00] Dr. Fradin's book on Advanced Parenting
[13:00] Choosing a Pediatrician
[14:54] Finding a new Pediatrician first
[16:41] Who to share feedback with
[18:36] Finding different Pediatricians for different age groups
[20:04] Listening to your adolescent about doctor preferences
[22:30] Atria Institue
[25:30] The power parents have
[27:30] Developmental screenings from the pediatrician's office
[31:06] Judgement free zone
[32:00] Preparation tools
[34:32] Preparing for lab draws
[37:38] The positive difference that Child Life makes
[39:10] Making a plan
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