Some personal views on pediatrics and not only...

ABSTRACT

In the paper there are presented author's personal views on youth education, medical education, child and adolescent physiology, some other common medical and pediatric issues. The role of the physician as an educator of the child is underlined. The pediatrician must be the main advisor to the society, school and family in the matter of youth education, contribute to their optimal self-realization. The importance of moral values, gender peculiarities and cultural codes are emphasized. The imprinting of cultural codes should be considered as a biological basis of patriotism. The effectiveness of the implementation of healthy life style is discussed. The opinion regarding the protection of youth from potentially negative effects on their development and behavior is expressed. It would be purposeful to give more consideration to the fundamental research, particularly to the problem of age-related morphological and functional peculiarities of the growing organism in the conditions of norm and pathology. One should have in mind the importance of research of the combination of harmful factors for the organism. The elaboration of empathic and optimistic attitudes should be considered as the very important goals of medical education. The differential usage of clinical guidelines is discussed. It is mentioned the purposefulness of more wide application of fuzzy logic approaches in medicine. The items of rare diseases, individualized medicine, alternative medicine and bacteriophage therapy are discussed as well.