At Carmel Valley Pediatrics, our mission is to provide the highest quality comprehensive care to our pediatric patients and to educate parents through the process of shared decision-making. The dedication, clinical expertise, and passion for children of Dr. de Freitas and Dr. Dailey is evident the minute you walk in the door. With over 25 year of experience as both a pediatrician and parent, Dr. de Freitas understands the importance of getting to know your family. The office is set up with the latest state-of-the art technology, which will simplify and improve your experience. You will see that reading to your child is an important theme in our office.

Vaccinating Children is absolutely the right thing to do!

Our practice has experienced a marked increase in parents requesting to delay or decline vaccinations. This may be a result of recent apperances by celebrities claiming that vaccines harmed their children in some way or as a result of the tremendous increase in the numbers of vaccines and injections in recent years.

My colleague and I find ourselves spending an inordinate amount of time defending our use of vaccines in each well-child check, as well as during increasing numbers of telephone inquiries. Furthermore, we found ourselves on the defensive side more often than not.

In response to this heightened demand on our time and energy, we developed a vaccine policy statement that is posted here on our web site and in every exam room and given at the one month visit. New parents know clearly where we stand in the vaccine "controversy" and our established patient families have expressed their appreciation for confirming choices they made with their children.

As always, we welcome your comments and look forward to continuing our care to your children.