Priority Pediatrics PC
Your Doctor At Your Door
The House-Call Practice of Marc A. Tanenbaum, MD, Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics
There is nothing more important than your child’s health. As North Atlanta’s first and only house-call pediatric practice, Priority Pediatrics allows you to give your children the medical attention they deserve in the comfort and convenience of their home. Unlike traditional practices that limit appointment time to make up for rising costs, we come directly to your home and are able to spend more time on what really matters - your child.
We offer a choice of two levels of health care services:
- Full Service: Full Service healthcare is for families who wish their children to have well and sick care provided by Priority Pediatrics including comprehensive access to your child''s doctor. This is our preferred level of service to you, i.e. to be available to your child 24/7/365, as your child’s primary pediatrician. This special relationship requires an annual retainer fee of less than $100 per month*.
- Flexible Service: Flexible Service is for families who wish episodic sick, consultative and/or second-opinion care when needed. There is no annual service charge. If you wish, records of this visit can be sent to your child''s primary doctor. The fee that applies to this choice of service is all-inclusive per visit for physician and travel when care is delivered at your home or other preferred location. Tests and treatments, if needed, are additional and itemized separately.
Fee information is available by calling our practice number, 404-654-0426.
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| Use of mobile phones does not increase the risk for brain tumors, a Danish national cohort study finds. The results, reported in BMJ, update an earlier study that reported findings until 2002, to which 5 years of follow-up data (to 2007) have now been added. Researchers compared the incidence of brain tumors in nearly 360,000 subscribers to mobile phone services with the incidence in the rest of the population over a 17-year period. They found that tumors of the central nervous system occurred at a similar rate in both groups. Editorialists say that continued monitoring of such cohorts is warranted, but new studies "are not needed." Earlier this year, WHO called cell phones "possibly carcinogenic." The vast majority of Americans are not keeping within published dietary guidelines for sodium intake, according to a CDC analysis of NHANES data published in MMWR. Government guidelines recommend that people aged 2 years and older should have less than 2300 mg of sodium daily. However, the recommended limit is even lower (1500 mg per day) for certain higher-risk groups: adults over age 50, blacks, and people with hypertension, diabetes, or kidney disease. Nearly half the population falls into these higher-risk groups, the CDC found. The analysis showed that 88% of Americans not at risk exceed the 2300-mg limit, and 99% of those in the higher-risk categories exceed the 1500-mg limit. The American Heart Association calls the CDC report "too conservative." It quotes a former association president: "We all should be consuming less than 1500 mg a day of sodium, unless your healthcare provider has told you that this doesn''t apply to you." To help prevent pertussis infection in newborns, who are too young to be immunized, the tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid, and acellular pertussis (Tdap) booster vaccine should be administered to pregnant women who have not previously received Tdap, according to a guideline update from the CDC''s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). The new recommendation, published in MMWR, replaces previous guidance that Tdap be given to women immediately postpartum. New safety data now support its use during pregnancy, preferably after 20 weeks'' gestation. In addition, maternal pertussis antibodies pass to the fetus and "likely confer protection" to the infant without diminishing the infant''s own antibody response to later vaccination, ACIP says. Adolescents and adults who have not received Tdap and who anticipate close contact with an infant under 12 months of age should also receive the booster, ideally 2 weeks before contact with the infant.
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