Marimón Pediatrics

18/07/2025

Congratulations to our amazing Dr. Garcia on her second year anniversary . We feel lucky and blessed to have you as part of our family. Wishing you many more years of success and happiness!

04/04/2025

The three best nurse practitioners in the world, Andrea, Pamela and Cristina, have a tough job, which they do beautifully!!! Thank you for being part of our family

17/03/2025

“May good luck be with you wherever you go, and your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow.” Happy St. Patrick’s Day from our family
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14/03/2025

ery excited to extend an i no nvitation to our patients to this presentation where Dr. Marimon will b e discussing the truths and myths about vaccines in collaboration with the Miami Children’s Museum

09/03/2025

Happy international women’s day to all the amazing women who entrust in us their greatest treasure, their babies! Today a woman can be and accomplish anything she sets her mind to. We are lawyers, doctors, CEOs, bosses, and mothers to the next generation of children in this world! Blessed to be surrounded by the best

05/03/2025

“Measles is a highly contagious disease caused by the measles virus. The infection can lead to serious and sometimes fatal complications. Fortunately, measles is a vaccine-preventable illness.
Measles is one of the most contagious diseases in the world. In fact, 9 out of 10 people exposed to measles will catch it, too, if they are unvaccinated, have not had the disease before or have a problem with their immune system.
Measles was under control in the United States, but we are seeing outbreaks again in areas where vaccination rates have fallen.”

27/02/2025

The day a patient died under my care of a vaccine-preventable disease is a day seared into my memory.

I was a second-year resident in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at a busy, urban hospital in Northern Virginia. He was a sweet, blond-haired, blue-eyed little boy who had been diagnosed a few months earlier with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). In the United States, the prognosis for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia is very good, with a cure rate of over 90%. The primary treatment for this type of cancer typically involves a combination chemotherapy regimen to prevent the spread of the leukemia cells, with the ultimate goal of achieving remission and preventing relapse. While undergoing chemotherapy, these same medicines that kill cancer cells, can also weaken and at times destroy the immune system of these patients. Patients become immunocompromised and vulnerable to all types of infections.

A few months into his treatment, my patient had been doing very well. He was responding to the chemotherapy and staying healthy and strong. However, although he was already four years old, this little boy had not received any of the recommended childhood vaccines. His parents, with the support of their pediatrician, made the decision to not vaccinate. That summer, while immunocompromised, but responding well to the treatment against acute lymphoblastic leukemia, my patient contracted chicken pox, and was admitted onto my service in the PICU. His disease quickly progressed into varicella encephalitis, a known potential complication of this vaccine-preventable disease, from which he died just a short, few days later.

That evening, my attending soberly walked the halls of the PICU towards my patient’s room. ‘What do you say to parents who have just lost a child?’, I asked him. He did not immediately respond, but instead, continued walking silently into the room where the parents embraced their deceased baby boy. He began to offer his condolences, and then stood in silence next to me. ‘I have dedicated my life to this profession’, he said, ‘and I am in the business of saving children’s lives. Your son did not die from cancer. Your son died tonight from complications from varicella, a vaccine-preventable disease, a vaccine that you, his parents, chose not to give him’.

That day changed my life forever. In the depths of all that pain and suffering, I understood the nature of my own calling and my purpose in life. As a physician, our oath is always to first do no harm. Any doctor, and especially, to me, any pediatrician who is out there encouraging and supporting parents in their quest to not vaccinate their children against these terrible diseases should not be practicing our profession. If you don’t believe in science, you cannot be a scientist. And, if you are not a scientist, you are not a doctor.

Sadly, today, in the United States, a first-world country, a school-aged child died of complications from measles, a vaccine-preventable disease. To accept this as a simple fact and keep going about our day would be wrong. To look the other way and ignore the harm the anti-vaxxer movement has created will make us accomplices of this and every other death caused by a vaccine-preventable disease.

27/02/2025

12/02/2025

Join us live at 3p as our Dr Marimon speaks on La Mesa Caliente on

12/02/2025

Last week, on February 3rd, was National Women Physicians Day. This day commemorates the birthday of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, who, in 1849, became the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States.

The day came and went without a proper post or celebration, because, like most weekdays, I was too busy juggling all the hats that a woman has the privilege to wear these days—Mom (to two teenage girls, I might add), pediatrician, business owner, boss, daughter, wife, and friend. Of course, I wanted to complain about how hard it is for us women today, but then I stopped and thought for a second about Elizabeth Blackwell, the only woman sitting in her medical school classroom in 1849, being questioned about her abilities, her skills, and her right to be there among all the men. As I think about her, I realized, she, like me, had a choice for an “easier” life. However, she made the choice, no matter how hard it was, to pursue her dream, a dream that I am sure she was told was impossible.

According to the statistics (and I believe in those), in recent years, female medical students have begun outnumbering their male peers. As of the 2023-2024 school year, they make up over 55% of this country’s medical school students. We are now doctors, lawyers, judges, architects, engineers and CEOs. However, now, we are not “good enough” for all the other jobs that a woman must fulfill. Because I am a doctor and a business owner, I don’t have time to make it to “mommy and me by the bay” on Monday at 10am. Because I chose to follow my dream of being a physician and take care of other people’s children, I cannot keep up with my daughters’ million school chats (there is one for each grade, each party, each field trip, and each sport), their afterschool activities, the 5 o’clock lecture from an “expert” on being a “better parent to teenagers”, or let’s be honest, the place where I really want to go, my friends’ girls’ night out.

This week I had two back-to-back well-child checkups for two beautiful, smart, and gifted eight-year-old girls. When I asked my usual question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” the first one’s response was “When I grow up, I want to be three types of human—a singer, a dancer, and a scientist”. My second patient, when asked the same question, answered, “I will become a microbiologist, an astronomer, and an astronaut and I will travel to Mars”. Both little girls were serious and honest with their responses. These are their dreams, and my duty, just like with my own two daughters, is to make sure they continue to believe in and follow through with their dreams, no matter how long it takes or how difficult the road ahead might be.

A woman is not only a beautiful, unique, and gifted being, but we are also capable of it all—the secret is that, perhaps, not all needs to be done at the same time. Let us look at each other as women, the stay-at-home moms, the working moms, the full-timers, the part-timers, the young and the old—we are all struggling, and yet doing our best, in a world where a woman has no other choice but to simply be SELF-SUFFICIENT and STRONG.

30/01/2025

Happy Chinese New Year! A day which holds a special place in my heart ♥️

17/12/2024

Blessed to be part of this amazing team! Thank you to each and every patient and family that allows Marimon Pediatrics to be a Miami Dade favorite!!