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Dear Dr. Perrin:

 

When 35 pediatricians established the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1930, Roosevelt was yet to be elected and World War II was yet to be waged or won.  That war brought about two pivotal changes in medicine: the widespread availability of penicillin and the correlation of strep to rheumatic fever.  These remain, without a doubt, two of the most significant advances in medicine.  Yet, they are inextricably linked to great loss of human life.  Today, medicine faces an equally important challenge.  This time, however, the bodies strewn across the field are children’s and the battle is over mental health.  The AAP must become a voice for change.

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