Tribeca Pediatrics Coming to Fort Greene
The popular children’s doctor Tribeca Pediatrics, which has already expanded from its Southern Manhattan origins to Williamsburg, Park Slope and Boerum Hill, will be setting up yet another Brooklyn outpost, this one in Fort Greene: A tipster just sent in this photo of a sign that just went into the window of the former bridal…
The popular children’s doctor Tribeca Pediatrics, which has already expanded from its Southern Manhattan origins to Williamsburg, Park Slope and Boerum Hill, will be setting up yet another Brooklyn outpost, this one in Fort Greene: A tipster just sent in this photo of a sign that just went into the window of the former bridal gown store at 771 Fulton Street, next door to Night of the Cookers. We don’t think it’s a leap to see that there will plenty of demand from the Dan Zanes crowd for this one!
Tribeca Pediatrics Opening in the Slope [Brownstoner] GMAP
Tribeca Pediatrics Expands to Boerum Hill [Brownstoner]
“Not to worry. If your child has a nanny from anywhere, there’s nothing faux about his affluence – it’s the real thing.”
Call me old-fashioned, but I would think to be affluent, you need to not be paycheck-to-paycheck; maybe have savings of any sort, maybe be able to buy a scooter for your kid if you want, maybe not have to take a federal loan to pay for the nanny, which by the way, is the cheapest childcare option for a toddler and a newborn when you have no extended family.
I do, but my view of the matter comes from someone who had to deal with this while working for the CDC as an epidemiologist, who firmly believes that the media (24 hr news cycle) was behind the near hysteria. In their opinion, which they based on the data they had first hand experience with, H1N1 should have been handled in the same manner that any other flu was. That’s kinda hard to do when you have an uninformed public and bogus “experts” passing around information.
Ishtar, do you read The New Yorker? A recent issue had a very interesting article about viruses and how modern life makes them more dangerous. It touches on the H1N1 issue. Unfortunately the complete article is only available to subscribers, but here’s the abstract:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/20/101220fa_fact_specter
If they really did that rf, I’m putting them on the short list for options just in case I end up with crotch fruit.
Last year they posted on their website that the h1n1 issue was overblown.
Tribeca certainly isn’t anti-vaccination, in fact I they are very clear about the need to have vaccinations (read it here: http://tribecapediatrics.com/TPeds/?page_id=24). But they do see patients who don’t vaccinate. They are more laissez-faire about things like FLU vaccines, but that is very different than the required vaccines.
We’ve used them since before they were in Wiliamsburg and we’ve been very happy with them. I would describe their approach as pragmatic – they are not dogmatic about many things at all, except maybe about not being dogmatic. If you want to know what they are like, browse Cohen’s book.
By blowfish on January 6, 2011 12:28 PM
“i want to provide a faux-affluent, faux boho Brooklyn upbringing for my kids…his nanny is st. lucian”
Not to worry. If your child has a nanny from anywhere, there’s nothing faux about his affluence – it’s the real thing.
If their attitude about vaccines is a mystery to you as current patients, be aware they may take families who don’t vaccinate. Pediatric Associates states in very strong language on a sign inside every exam room door they don’t accept families who don’t vaccinate as patients. The doctors are very assertive in stating that when you meet them, too. They leave absolutely no question about it.
I think they may be more flexible with anti-vaxers than some other practices are. Maybe? But they’re actually pretty old-school about a lot of things — like sleep training. (Note: I have no opinion on that, just what I’ve heard from people who go there.)