Many of us will remember him or her for the candy at the end of visit or even for tears before entering the mysterious room, regardless of the memory or experience every child, from birth, he must have his pediatrician to access all the services and benefits offered by the national health Service (NHS), including the basic levels of care.
the pediatrician , also known pediatrician, is the doctor in charge of child protection, developmental and adolescence. Pediatricians are in fact involved in the prevention, care and rehabilitation of children and young people between 0 and 14 years.
The current agreement provides, from a purely formal point of view, the child from birth to 6 years to be followed by a pediatrician, while 6 to 14 can be followed both by the pediatrician that the general practitioner who takes care of adults. After 14 years there is the obligatory passage to the general practitioner, except in special cases such as those with chronic illnesses, which can remain under the care of a pediatrician up to 16 years.
few years is increasingly claiming the figure of the ‘ Adolescentologo , or your doctor adolescents. It is a pediatrician who has done further specialization on the age group ranging from 12 to 18/21 years. This is a very delicate period in which mind and body through major changes. The adolescentologo takes into account all the factors, both clinical and personal, collects all the problems related to age, with no overlap with the role of the psychologist.
The pediatrician, the adolescentologo and GP (also called GP) know well our health, and when the need arises, guide us in the whole course of treatment within the national community health system structures. Also interested to adhere to national prevention and health promotion campaigns.
You can contact one of these medical figures whenever you are living hardships that affect our health: specific pains or General that persist for a few days, or if the pain resulting from trauma; before taking new drugs; continuous fever or persistent; headache or dizziness, etc. In short, in all those cases in which the body sends signals of discomfort of concern and need further study.
More specifically, the pediatrician or family doctor provide the following services:
- – medical outpatient and home visit;
– prescription medications, requests for specialist examinations and diagnostic tests both instrumental and laboratory (through the so-called difficult or red recipe);
– proposals for hospitalization;
– proposals for alternative home care to hospitalization;
– free release of the following medical certificates provided by the national agreement: readmission to school certificates, proof of eligibility for the performance of non-competitive sports activities both in schools, certificates for the workers of the disease.
It may be useful to know that, if for reasons of work or study you live in a city other than residence (for a period ranging from a minimum of three months to a maximum of one year), you can get through the ASL temporary assignment of a family doctor and, at the end of the period, to renew the request.
Finally, it seems important to remember that the primary care physician should be someone you trust to trust and with whom you can speak freely of difficulty, eating habits, lifestyle and everything that can help in ‘ history, in the tranquility of the doctor-patient relationship that is covered by professional secrecy.
If you need more information and clarification, please write to esperti@diregiovani.it
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