Does a parent have an obligation to provide adequate medical care for their child under the New York State Health and Social Care Act?

It is readily apparent that the phrase "adequate medical care" does not require a parent to beckon the assistance of a physician for every trifling affliction which a child may suffer for everyday experience teaches us that many of a child's ills may be overcome by simple household nursing. We believe, however, that the statute does require a parent to entrust the child's care to that of a physician when such course would be undertaken by an ordinarily prudent and loving parent, "solicitous for the welfare of his child and anxious to promote (the child's) recovery." (See People v. Pierson, 176 N.Y. 201, 206, 68 N.E. 243, 244.) This obligation, however, is not without qualification.