This is Pedicast.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Pediacast.

It's 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 is episode 364 for January 4th, 2017.

We're calling this one ankle injuries.

We want to welcome everyone to the program.

Happy New Year. It's going to get some

taking used to to put 2017 at the end of those show intros. I'll probably make a mistake

and say 2016 at some point here, but got it right today. So we're starting off on the right foot.

Really excited to be gearing up with another year's worth of evidence-based pediatric

content for you. We already have some great interviews on the books, including today's.

And of course, we'll cover lots more pediatric news. We'll answer lots more of your questions.

In fact, our next episode, next week, we have a whole lineup of questions from the audience.

And I'll explain how you can ask a question if you want to get your topic, your question on the show.

It's easy to do.

And I'll explain exactly how to do that in just a couple of moments.

Speaking of pediatric news, immunizations are always a hot topic, and I'm sure they'll be just as hot in 2017 as they were the last couple of years.

In fact, in 2016, we spent two entire episodes talking through childhood vaccines, how they work, the diseases they prevent,

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