What is Adolescent Medicine?
At Northwest Spokane Pediatrics, we realize that adolescence is a time of many rapid changes in a teenagers’ life. Changing schools every couple years, competitive sports teams, getting ready for college, changing bodies (puberty) and developing deeper relationships with friends and significant others. Along with these changes comes a lot of questions. We hope to help teens make informed decisions that will keep them safe and healthy as they make their way to young adulthood.
What is Adolescent Medicine?
At Northwest Spokane Pediatrics, we realize that adolescence is a time of many rapid changes in a teenagers’ life. Changing schools every couple years, competitive sports teams, getting ready for college, changing bodies (puberty) and developing deeper relationships with friends and significant others. Along with these changes comes a lot of questions. We hope to help teens make informed decisions that will keep them safe and healthy as they make their way to young adulthood.
Because we see most of our patients from the time they are young, our providers develop a relationship that allows open and honest discussions of the topics that start coming up at this age.