Author: Lisa Chestnut

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Lisa Chestnut, MD, is a board certified pediatrician and has 14 years of pediatric and adult emergency medicine experience. In 2009, she co-founded KidMed, an after-hours pediatric urgent care enter that provides acute care to infants and children, ages newborn to 21. KidMed has two Richmond-area locations.

Injuries in children are greatly influenced by weather and season.Most of us in the medical field know that pediatric urgent care and emergency room visits for injuries peak in the…