Today I'm going to talk about children. Jack lives in New York and is a pediatrician. He is interested in what in Germany is the sick children.

Let's start with the very young children. In general, children are born in Germany in the hospital. They are hardly a few days old, they get even their own insurance card. An insurance card looks like a credit card. It is small and made of plastic. On her much information is stored. In this case, it is important that the child has health insurance from birth. If it is so ill, or even go to the hospital, you show this card, and the doctors know who is paying for the tests. Of course, not to pay the child but the parents. You pay a monthly sum of money to the insurance company. For many investigations and operations are then free.

Of course all parents hope that their children will never get sick. But when it does happen, or if the child is injured, there are special children's doctors. Their practices are usually set up so that children feel comfortable there and have no fear of the unfamiliar surroundings. Everything is colorful and there are a lot of toys there. Also, doctors usually have no white coat, as usual, but colorful shirts.

Every baby and every child must go to the doctor regularly. For it is there in the U-control studies. The results of these inspections shall be recorded in a booklet. This is what the doctor if the child is well developed, whether it is large enough and heavy enough and whether it is healthy. The children are vaccinated at the doctor's course. The vaccinations carried out in a predetermined time frame, ie, at certain intervals. In the first months of life the child will be vaccinated very often, then less later. So it should be protected from many diseases such as mumps, measles and rubella.

Who wants to be a pediatrician, have to study medicine first. It usually takes six years, twelve semester. The last year, however, is an intern at a hospital. Here the young doctors be trained to work with so already. After studying the training continues with specialist training. This means that the students specialize in one subject. This training as a pediatrician, for example, takes another five years. During this time, however, already earns money and is assistant physician called. After training, you have two options: You either continue working in a hospital, or you work in a practice. One practice is to speak of a doctor's office.

If a child is very ill and has to a children's hospital. The hospitals are specifically for children. There are children's hospitals, especially in larger cities. Most parents can stay with their sick children - there are foundations like the Ronald McDonald Foundation, the special houses built for the parents so that they can remain with their children when they are ill and need a long stay in hospital .

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Today I'm going to talk about children. Jack lives in New York and is a pediatrician. He is interested in what in Germany is the sick children. Let's start with the very small ...