PEDIATRICS Vol. 71 No. 1 January 1983, pp. 138
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Foster Care Children

JOHN D. MADDEN MD1

1 Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92717

To the Editor.—

Schor's article, "The Foster Care System and Health Status of Foster Children" (Pediatrics 1982;69:521) may well prove to be a landmark paper in social pediatrics. The related editorial by Sokoloff (Pediatrics 1982;69:649) provided invaluable advice as to how we, as pediatricians, can better serve children in foster care. One point in Sokoloff's editorial particularly caught my attention. He expressed the hope that pediatricians providing health care to the natural children within the family would also be willing to attend the needs of the foster child and that the fact that in some states Medicaid is responsible financially for these children would not deter the physician from doing so.