Sunlife Pediatric Network

01/16/2026

Why we don't agree with the new CDC guidelines. This is medicine and politics should not be involved. Physicians and healthcare workers should be the ones calling the shots, not politicians.

The Trump administration just yanked the recommendation for a vaccine that can spare people from what I went through.

12/24/2025

12/08/2025

This family moved but they don't forget their old pediatrician back home. Godspeed family!

11/21/2025

This would be a consequence of Difteria coming back. Don’t hesitate vaccinate…

The Children Who Should Have Lived — The Forgotten Tragedy of 1948

Their names were Jennene, Lequetta, and Royce Cagle — just 4, 7, and 10 years old.
Three bright little souls from Lula, Georgia.
Three siblings who never got to grow up.

On a painful morning in 1948, fear swept through their small town after an unimaginable tragedy:
All three children died from diphtheria within just ten hours.

Ten hours.
Three funerals.
One broken family that would never be whole again.

Their deaths weren’t caused by war, or disaster, or fate.
They were caused by a vaccine that never reached their arms.

Health officials later confirmed the truth:
Free immunizations had been offered.
But their parents never took them.

Whether it was doubt, fear, misinformation, or simply delay… we will never know.
But that choice — that single missed prevention — cost three young lives that same week.

The news spread fast.
Panic swept through Hall County.
Parents flooded the health office, begging for the vaccine they had once ignored.
By midday, the supply was gone — every drop used.
More had to be rushed in emergency shipments.

Diphtheria was a killer back then — thickening the throat, suffocating the child it infected.
And although vaccines had begun to save lives across the country, too many still believed the lie that “it won’t happen to my family.”

Dr. T.F. Sellers, Georgia’s chief health officer, made a public plea:

“We have made progress…
but diphtheria is no less dangerous than it was 24 years ago.”

He spoke the truth over three small coffins.

📌 The Cagle siblings did not die because medicine failed them.
They died because prevention arrived too late.

Their story remains one of the most heartbreaking reminders in American public health history:
That vaccines don’t just protect —
they prevent heartbreak that no parent should ever endure.

May we remember Jennene.
May we remember Lequetta.
May we remember Royce.
And may we never forget the lesson their loss carved into time. 💔🕊️

07/28/2025

As of August 1st 2025, SunLife Pediatric Network will close the Plantation office. We will still be available at the Pembroke Pines office.

06/10/2025

06/05/2025

06/05/2025

Thanks to the Saint Amour family for the confidence that they have placed in our practice to care for their children. Godspeed. Love you guys!

05/25/2025

Happy Memorial Day to our patients and their families. Even though we take this day to barbecue and share with our family and friends, we have to keep in mind the lives sacrificed to assure us that luxury. Godspeed! Have a safe Memorial Day.

04/29/2025

Here are several options for Pediatric urgent care in your area.

Cooper City: 354-435-7400
Coral Springs: 954-575-1211
Miramar: 954-442-0809
Pembroke Pines: 954-432-3888
Pompano B*h: 954-941-5131
Weston coming soon: 954-385-6277
West Pembroke Pines: 954-392-0266

03/08/2025

If your child never got the Measles vaccine it ‘s not too late. It’s a component of the MMR vaccine that contains Measles Mumps and Rubella. Measles is just one of the vaccine preventable diseases that are making a come back due to parents and patients refusing to vaccinate. I’d hate to see polio come back, aside from being deadly, polio can cripple a patient. Do not hesitate, vaccinate.

03/07/2025

I want to apologize to all my patients for not being reachable these last few days. I have had phone and internet problems. They were resolved today and we are back in business. One caveat is that I don’t have a secretary so if you can’t get through to us or can’t leave a message shoot us an email or message us through FB messenger. If all else fails just walk in. We will be going to Plantation at least once week as of next week, either Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.