DavidHalKeeneMD

Summary

• I am a board-certified pediatrician with more than three decades of primary care experience in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, some French and some Hebrew. My practice serves a very diverse slice of our very diverse Southern California community, including patients who come from as far away as Palmdale, Long Beach, Orange County and Pomona. But I don't mean just geographical diversity, but economic and cultural as well.
  
  Really good medicine -- the relationship we hope to create and sustain between patient, parent and physician -- cannot exist outside of the social and cultural context. I aim to be aware of and sensitive to the context from which each of my patients comes. Everyone's an individual and I aspire to treat everyone in a way that respects who they are.
  
  My website, davidhkeenepediatrics.com, describes my approach to caring for patients. On its various pages I have written answers to many of the questions I often hear, along with information about immunizations and much more about my personal background. However, because everyone is different among both children and parents, I find it difficult to give generic advice. Sometimes the situation calls for more intervention, and sometimes it calls for just waiting and letting things take care of themselves. My goal is to take care of your child when he or she is sick, to help you make decisions that will keep your child healthy, and to help you be the best parent that you can be.
  
  My pledge to you is to listen, to be observant, to be thoughtful and to make appropriate use of what is known from real science, in order to provide or arrange for the best possible care for your child.