| Abstract: | Besides the responsibilities of his own personal patients, the pediatrician has a community responsibility toward the hospital which is his workshop. His area of interest may include proper standards in the field of newborn and premature care, and control of communicable disease and hospital-acquired infection not only in the nursery but in the entire hospital—particularly staphylococcal infections. Finally, the pediatrician should see to it that not only the pediatric ward but the hospital as a whole, and the personnel working in it, provide a suitable emotional climate for the sick child. |
