Today was the last and final day of my stay at Cary Peds and I loved it. For being my last day it was incredibly hectic but nevertheless a great experience. Dr. Seidel handled the rush excellently and showed me how to stay calm in even the most stressful events. Again this morning we saw the little boy with the dog bite and while improving slightly his hand was still producing more discharge than Dr. Seidel would have liked to see. With this though she allowed them to continue with antibiotic and a recheck tomorrow afternoon. While he appears to be on an upward trend there is no telling how things will go from here. Additionally today I learned about a new program Cary, Apex, and Fuquay Varina Pediatrics is starting. It is called the Reach out and read program. It is designed for children 0-5 and is a grant given to pediatric offices where a certain amount of patients are on medicare. While the Fuquay office qualifies and received the grant, Cary and Apex did not but they decided to use their budgets to supply the program to all three offices. With this program books will be distributed to families at every wellness check and it gives the pediatrician a place to start a dialog about reading and getting children to recognize words, pictures etc. It provides age appropriate books moving in about increments of 6 months. Overall I think this is a great program for children in need. I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Cary Peds with Dr. Seidel and thank them all so much for this opportunity. I also recommend to anyone looking into pediatrics in the following years!
info flyer for reach out and read
image from google – the purple highlighted area is the part of the palm that was bitten (thenar area)