An interested pediatrician with limited special training in pediatric cardiology can offer valuable community service. Both initial evaluation of patients with suspected heart disease and follow-up of those with established heart disease can be accomplished. I suggest that this pediatrician can provide primary evaluation of heart murmurs, abnormal heart rhythms, chest pain, syncope and hypertension. Furthermore I believe the pediatrician so trained can follow patients postoperatively. I propose that this physician can make many valid decisions regarding both need for, and timing of, pediatric cardiology specialist care.