PEDIATRICS Vol. 48 No. 1 July 1971, pp. 160-161
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Pediatricians in Mental Health and Child Guidance Clinics

Albert M. Gordon 1

1 Major, USAF MC, Chief, Pediatric Service, 40th Tactical Hospital, APO New York 09283

In reading "Utilization of a Pediatrician in a Mental Health Clinic"1 and "Utilization of a Pediatrician in a Community Child Guidance Clinic,"2 I am genuinely impressed by the reasons for calling a pediatrician to assist in the treatment of mental sickness. Unfortunately, pediatricians are trained to give physical sick and health care and not mental sick and health care.3 Therefore, a community pediatric mental health clinic should provide supervision and training for the pediatrician, as well as liaison with the agencies and organizations with which he is involved.