Welcome to ClevelandPediatrics.com!

Here you will find a website dedicated to providing information about Pediatric medicine in the Metro Cleveland area.  The metro Cleveland area is blessed to have some of the finest medical facilities, providers and Doctors in the nation helping you and me.  

We at ClevelandPediatrics.com have children, and thus we want to provide you with the best quality information available to help you make informed decisions about your children's healthcare.

Pediatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. Typically, the upper age range of pediatric medicine deals with the treatment of children in the ranges from age 14 to 21.   The Doctors that treat patients in this field are refered to as pediatricians.

The word pediatrics and its cognates translates to healer of children.  This word is derived from two Greek words.  The first is pais which means child and the second is iatros which means doctor or healer (pais+iatros = child healer or pediatrican).

Pediatrics differs from adult medicine in many respects. The obvious body size differences are paralleled by maturational changes. The smaller body of an infant or neonate is substantially different physiologically from that of an adult. Congenital defects, genetic variance, and developmental issues are of greater concern to pediatricians than they often are to adult physicians.

Childhood is the period of greatest growth, and development of the various organs and systems in the body. Treating and caring for children is not like treating a miniature adult and thus the reason for you and I to turn to a specialist in children, a Pediatrician. 

So thank you for coming to our website.  Check out some of the links, the Types of Pediatricians page, our Books page and the Find A Doctor section.