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.
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