Dr. Atlas is a pediatric pulmonologist who practices at the Respiratory Center for Children at Morristown Memorial Hospital. I was always interested in pediatrics. Once I started training, the variety of diseases and treatments in pulmonary medicine interested me more than any other area of pediatrics. So I just moved in that direction. I like the wide variety of illnesses, some chronic care, some acute care.
Many patients rapidly improve and others take more patience.
I enjoy the variety of patients seen in the specialty. Being a pediatric pulmonologist, I sometimes care for children with fatal diseases. That's definitely the most difficult aspect to deal with. I think the biggest changes have been in cystic fibrosis. Since the beginning of my training, I have seen improvement in quality of life and in length of life.