H&HN Magazine: “Healing Children, One Life at a Time”

Kurt Newman, M.D.
Aug 8, 2017 · 2 min read

I recently sat down with the American Hospital Association’s Hospital & Health Networks Magazine to answer questions about my new book, Healing Children, and share my views on the future of pediatric medicine.

Here’s a preview:

Where do you see opportunities to improve children’s health care?

NEWMAN: Instead of cutting resources, we should be putting more into research for some of the great potential advances and frontiers in such areas as neuroscience, mental health or genetics. If we discover the source and causes of some of the diseases that can become chronic like asthma, diabetes or obesity, we could have a big impact. If we do the research and identify the causes, then we can screen and correct things earlier.

One of the areas I’m passionate about is behavioral and mental health, where we’re just not doing enough. Twenty percent of children will have some type of mental or behavioral health issue during their childhood. And the time from when these things are first noticed to when they’re diagnosed if treatment is available and given is an average of eight years. If we focused resources here, we could have a big impact on our children’s health.

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Kurt Newman, M.D.

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Father, Author, Pediatric Surgeon, President & CEO of Children’s National Health System

Kurt Newman, MD

Father, Author, Pediatric Surgeon, President & CEO of Children’s National Health System

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