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Vistas and Vantage Points

ALAN D. BEDRICK, MD

Am J Dis Child. 1991;145(3):256.

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According to Webster's, a perspective affords one the opportunity to make an accurate evaluation by observing things in their true relationships. Perhaps this includes a new view, a vista, from which the observer can stand back, observe, and get unique, refreshing new insights into common (and not so common) occurrences.

Pediatric Perspectives is a relatively new addition to AJDC's special departments, which include Research to Relevance, Educational Interventions, Sports Medicine, and others. In this department, we hope to provide our readers with new insights into, and innovative ways of viewing, pediatric medical topics while providing learned treatises on current forces and issues that affect the everyday practice of pediatrics by all physicians, from the general practitioner to the teacher/clinician to the research scientist. For example, in this issue of AJDC, Elaine Wyllie, MD, discusses advances in diagnosis of and therapies for seizure disorders as they relate to central nervous . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Department Editor, Pediatric Perspectives AJDC

Footnotes
per·spec·tive (per-spek'tiv), adj. [ME. <LL. perspectivus <L. perspicere, to look through <per, through + specere, to look.] 1. the art of picturing objects or a scene in such a way, eg, by converging lines as to show them as they appear to relative distance or depth 2. the appearance of objects or scenes as determined by their relative distance and positions 3. the relationship or proportion of the parts of a whole, regarded from a particular standpoint or point in time 4. a specific point of view in understanding or judging things or events, esp. one that shows them in their true relation to one another b) the ability to see things in a true relationship1

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