Dear children, teenagers, and parents

The first snow has fallen – winter is here! With the onset of the cold season, we spend more time indoors. This leads to increases in infectuous diseases. We react to those by clearing our schedule for more urgent appointments which you can easily book online. As influenza cases are becoming more frequent, it’s also still worth getting vaccinated. If you are interested, book your appointment online, and reach out to us in case you should have any questions.

During these months, we would like to remind you of the following:

• Please restrict the number of accompanying people to a minimum, ideally to one person per child – our practice is very small.
• You can reach us easily with public transport. If you need to drive, please check out our parking options.
• We will preferably defer developmental checkups for 4 – 14 years olds into spring, so that we have more time for acute cases.

See you soon at Kinderarztpraxis Kilchberg!

Dr. med. Martin Rössler & Dr. med. Meryem Hosse
Specialists for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, FMH

In addition to improved hygiene and nutrition, vaccination programs are responsible for extended live expectancy and social progress. To make vaccinations as pleasant as possible for you, we provide a few resources to help you prepare:

• You can listen to the stories of Tara & Pips as audio books through an app. There are many options for topics and languages available. Ask us for an access code for more stories during your next visit.
• Parents can find information and tips in this talk series (in German).
• How you can help yourself with vaccinations: Information for older children and for parents (in German).

Please do not park on our neighbors’ private spots or in front of their garages. Whenever our patient parking left from the entrance is full, you can find public parking lanes downhill, along the left side of Paradiesstrasse (starting at the blue hydrant, please don’t block entrances). Alternatively, you can find marked spots in Mönchhofstrasse. Thank you!

Our practice participates in a pilot project operated by Intonate GmbH which enables automatic discussion transcripts of consultations. This frees up time on our side to focus better on our patients. In this first phase, we can test and help to shape the new system. This is why it is possible that we ask you whether you allow us to run this system in the background while we conduct our consultation. We would appreciate your consent very much, and can reassure you that the confidentiality of the collected data will be granted at all times.