July 2008
This edition:
Pediatric Advocacy: Building Bridges
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Politics and children's healthcare - at first glance, the two seem unrelated. Yet the funding of children's healthcare is largely driven by the legislative process - making it very political. Funding for the state's Medicaid program, the children's health insurance program, and many other children's services is appropriated each year by the legislature. Children have no "legislative voice," and legislators, although well meaning, struggle with multiple priorities.
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Dear faculty, Children's Hospital staff and other friends,
This year has generated some tremendous success in education, research, and new clinical stars. We have worked hard to provide training that will ensure that South Carolina will have a new generation of pediatricians to take care of our children.
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Just for children: advocating for research specific to kids
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Once upon a time, what was good and true for adults was thought to be good and true for children, just on a smaller scale - halved, usually. A full dose for adults, a half-dose for kids, and so on.
But that was old-school thinking. These days, we know better.
Children can't be treated as if they're small adults, says John Raymond, MD, vice president for academic affairs and provost of MUSC.
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A special thanks to the following individuals for their efforts in putting together Kids Connection each month.
Editor-in-Chief: Bernard L. Maria, MD/MBA
Editorial Assistant: Jennifer Cherock, Trio Solutions, Inc.
Publishers: Brian Dadin, Roxanne Hicks, Trio Solutions, Inc.
Feature Writer: Mary Sue Lawrence
Contributing Writers:
Lyndon Key,
Bernard Maria,
Philip Saul,
John Sanders,
Laura Cousineau
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