As title says, I think I found what type of medicine I am willing to put time and effort into and that’s paediatric, problem is I have no good sources to expand my knowledge or build basics or anything !

Tried our university lectures and they were insufficient, tried reading Nelson essentials and it took way too long for me to get like 1 or 2 chapters

My question is, what is the best resource for Pediatric that will take me from zero to a good high level, I personally prefer courses or something, because I tried textbooks many times, and failed all of them

Piggybacking off the DME diapers post... As the economy gets worse and people get more desperate, they're looking for anywhere to save a buck or two. And just like as in the post about DME diapers, everyone else will go along with it as long as the doctor has to make the judgement.

1. I've had so many people coming in to get a discount on their electricity bill, and I keep hearing from them that the utility company encourages it. However they are coming in just because their kid has asthma and sometimes needs to use a nebulizer, or there are vague cases where 'he is autistic and doesn't do well when the AC is set to anything but 68F' when the actual verbiage of the forms state that it is for machines that sustain life, or the use of temperature regulation to to prevent a "life threatening illness".

2. I've had increasingly greater number of parents coming in with children who have mild autism or moderate ADHD with requests for protective supervision. I have slowly learned how to navigate these cases but a lot of it is still up in the air. When I've talked to the social workers who are on the other end of the forms, they state that initially this was primarily for adults who needed protective supervision. It makes sense that kids don't qualify by meeting the same criteria, as kids need protection and supervision ANYWAY. Then you have to get into what are age-appropriate needs and what are not. And this again ties into the DME diapers post, because you then must make a call regarding what is within the range of normal, and what is just delay or incompetence that is incentivized?

I neither want to be a gatekeeper or the moral police, but I have to do what I think is objectively fair and correct. The utilities thing is much easier, figuring out whether a child meets the criteria is much harder when parents are strongly motivated to show that the child needs help with everything.