This episode of PDACast is brought to you by Nationwide Children's Hospital.

Thank you. Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Pediacast. We are a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike coming to you from the campus of Nationwide Children's Hospital. We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It's episode 605. We're calling this one 50 years of caring for kids, a nationwide children's story.

I want to welcome all of you to the program. We are so happy to have you with us.

You know, for more than 50 years, nationwide children's hospital has been caring for kids

and supporting families across Central Ohio and beyond. And when I say more than 50 years, I mean a lot more.

We begin caring for kids back in 1892, so that's 134 years ago. But really in the last 50 years,

there has just been tremendous change, both with our hospital, like the physical hospital,

but also the way in which kids are cared for with regard to pediatric medicine.

So what exactly did that look like, the care of kids 50 years ago?

How has that care changed and what has stayed the same?

Well, today we are taking a walk-through time with two seasoned physicians who have seen it all over the past 50 years.

Dr. Bruce Meyer is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at the Ohio State University College of Medicine

and an associate medical administrator at nationwide children's hospital.

Dr. Roger Friedman is a professor of allergy, immunology, and pediatrics at Ohio State,

and chairman of the Medical Alumni Association at Nationwide Children's and a pediatric

allergist at Ohio E&T and allergy.

Together, they have spent decades caring for children, building programs,

and shaping our hospital into what it is today. We're going to talk about the changes they have

witnessed and explore how medicine and nationwide children itself has evolved over the past

half century and what that means for families today. Before we welcome our guests, I do want to

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