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]
I have to agree with the pro Tribeca Pediatrics crowd here. We all choose pediatricians for many reasons. When I first chose them , they had a tiny practice in Brooklyn Heights and made a house call for my newborn 3 days after he came home. The service, kindness and really patient hands on care that they showed my newborn and myself, (a complete idiot knowing not too much), was priceless. That practice I think got took over, and they then opened up in Williamsburg where Dr Cohen was for a time, riding his bike over from Manhattan, then Boerum Hill, and then Park Slope. We went to the Manhattan office on a Saturday once with a dislocated arm and Dr Cohen was amazing. On another occasion he gave me his cell, and asked me to use it ANYTIME I needed to. They have a warm, caring environment and I love them and now Fort Greene is coming I could not be happier, but I will book my appointments WELL in advance!!
I interviewed TP about this…here’s a little more info.
Tribeca Parenting will also be located in their office. TParenting will have prenatal and postpartum classes and workshops.
They have also announced who their doctor will be- I wrote about it here fyi.
http://www.achildgrows.com/2011/01/06/tribeca-pediatrics-and-tribeca-parenting-moving-to-fort-greene/
and that article rf mentioned in the New Yorker- i think it was that article, if it was the one about Nick Wolfe- talks about how H1N1 was in fact not overblown, but the appropriate response to such a virus so new and so easily spread– we just got lucky that it didn’t turn out to be particularly deadly.
Although we’re long past needing a pediatrician, I’m certainly glad this practice is opening on Fulton.
http://www.jennymccarthybodycount.com/Jenny_McCarthy_Body_Count/Home.html
Judging from my own H1N1 family experience last year, and the experience of the four pregnant women I know who ended up in the hospital, that flu was no joke. This is a view I have also heard from several nurses and doctors I know, who had first-hand experience treating cases. I remember thinking at the time Tribeca posted the information that it was no big deal, (which a helpful person sent to me just as my daughter was being released from LICH after having the flu), that their attitude was a wee bit … cavalier, shall we say.
On the other hand, I do understand that panic helps no one. But what really helped last year was LICH Pediatrics opening their flu vaccine supply to all comers, including patients from Tribeca, who still didn’t have the shots.
(I may have some PTSD on this topic. Especially as at the moment we’re going through H1N1 round 2 at our house.)
To change the subject, blowfish is right about the daycare vs. nanny costs if you have more than one child. It’s pretty screwed up that this is the way child care is in this country… and no picnic for the nannies either… but that is the way it is.
we used them for a few years until I had to switch to someone closer to where we are and they were great. While there is a laissez faire-ness about them, it is a really informed, intelligent version and when there’s a problem, they are 100% on it. My daughter had febrile convulsions when she was two and Dr. Cohen stayed on his cell phone with me at 6AM for about 40 minutes to talk me through them and evaluate whether she needed to go to the ER. She was fine, but, as anyone who’s witnessed their first febrile convulsions knows, I would have been losing it if he hadn’t been so available. He also followed up in the days after. I think FG is lucky to be getting them!
I think it’s weird to have so many branches of a pediatric office. It’s not a bank after all. Plus, Michel Cohen is known, even among pediatrician circles, as being a “bit out there.” My cousin was his resident while at St. Vincent’s.
I mentioned their flu position – but while they were not convinced that the hysteria was warranted (which it wasn’t), they were very clear that they had vaccines on hand, and notified parents when new shipments came in. Basically, their position wasthat there was not much harm in vaccinating for H1N1, but also probably not much good.