Supporters say literacy promotion has a place in primary care.
By Delia O'Hara, AMNews correspondent. March 26, 2001. Every chance he gets, Peter Noronha, MD, perches on a tiny chair in the waiting room of the busy Chicago pediatric clinic he helps run and reads simple stories from slim, colorful books to any child who will listen. It is, he says, one of the most important parts of his job. Dr. Noronha, associate head of pediatric education and program director of pediatric residents' training at the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical School, believes that books are as important a medical tool as his stethoscope in the clinic where he serves mostly low-income families.