¿Podría usted decirme si la pediatra recibe también por la tarde?

Podría is the conditional form of poder, and here it makes the request more polite and less direct.

• ¿Puede usted decirme...? = Can you tell me...?
• ¿Podría usted decirme...? = Could you tell me...?

In Spanish, just like in English, the conditional often softens a question. In formal situations such as a clinic or reception desk, podría sounds more courteous.

No, usted is not strictly necessary, because the verb form podría already shows formal you. But including usted adds clarity or emphasis and keeps the tone formal.

So both are possible:

• ¿Podría usted decirme...?
• ¿Podría decirme...?

The version with usted sounds slightly more explicit and formal.

Here si means whether.

In this sentence:

• decirme si la pediatra recibe... = tell me whether the pediatrician sees patients...

Spanish often uses si where English uses whether after verbs like:

• preguntar si = to ask whether
• saber si = to know whether
• decir si = to say whether / tell someone whether

So although si can often translate as if, in this kind of indirect question it is best understood as whether.

Spanish does not usually need the same kind of subject-auxiliary inversion that English does.

In English:

• Could you tell me...?

In Spanish:

• ¿Podría usted decirme...?

The verb comes first naturally in many questions, but Spanish is generally more flexible with word order. Also, once you start with a polite frame like ¿Podría usted decirme...?, the rest becomes an indirect question:

• si la pediatra recibe también por la tarde

That indirect part keeps normal statement word order.

Because me is an unstressed object pronoun, and when it goes after an infinitive, it attaches to it:

• decirme = to tell me
• explicarle = to explain to him/her/you
• ayudarnos = to help us

You could also place the pronoun before a conjugated verb in some structures, but with an infinitive it is very common to attach it directly:

• ¿Podría decirme...?
• ¿Me podría decir...?

Both are correct.

In medical Spanish, recibir can mean to see patients, to hold consultations, or to be available for appointments.

So:

• La pediatra recibe por la tarde means something like
  The pediatrician sees patients in the afternoon
  or
  The pediatrician has office hours in the afternoon too

This is a common usage in medical or office contexts, even though a literal translation as receives sounds strange in English.

Yes. La pediatra refers to a female pediatrician.

A few useful points:

• el pediatra = a male pediatrician
• la pediatra = a female pediatrician

The noun pediatra ends in -a, but that does not automatically make it feminine only. Many profession nouns in -a can be masculine or feminine depending on the article.

So the article is what tells you the gender here:

• el pediatra
• la pediatra

Spanish often uses the definite article where English would use a possessive or no article at all, especially when referring to a known person in a setting.

Here la pediatra suggests the pediatrician that both speaker and listener can identify, for example the pediatrician at that clinic.

So:

• la pediatra = the pediatrician
• una pediatra = a pediatrician

If the speaker is asking about a specific doctor at a clinic, la pediatra is natural.

También means also or too.

In this sentence:

• recibe también por la tarde = also sees patients in the afternoon

The idea is that the pediatrician probably already sees patients at another time, and the speaker is asking whether she also does so in the afternoon.

Its position is flexible, but this placement is very natural:

• ¿...si la pediatra recibe también por la tarde?

Other positions may be possible depending on emphasis, but this is a standard, neutral choice.

In Spain, por la tarde is the normal way to say in the afternoon.

• por la mañana = in the morning
• por la tarde = in the afternoon
• por la noche = at night / in the evening, depending on context

In much of Spain, en la tarde is much less common and can sound unnatural in many contexts. So for Spain Spanish, por la tarde is the best expression to learn here.

Because this is a neutral indirect question about a fact, not a doubtful or hypothetical clause requiring the subjunctive.

• si la pediatra recibe... = whether the pediatrician sees patients...

The speaker is simply asking for information. So the indicative is used:

• recibe (indicative)

The subjunctive is not needed here.

Yes. A less formal version would usually use puedes or podrías with tú, or just avoid the pronoun completely.

For example:

• ¿Podrías decirme si la pediatra recibe también por la tarde?
• ¿Me puedes decir si la pediatra recibe también por la tarde?

These are more appropriate with someone you address as tú. The original sentence is more formal and polite, suitable for speaking to staff, especially in a professional setting.

It contains both a direct question and an indirect question.

The whole sentence is a direct question because the speaker is asking someone something:

• ¿Podría usted decirme...?

Inside it, there is an indirect question introduced by si:

• si la pediatra recibe también por la tarde

So the structure is basically:

• Could you tell me
  • whether the pediatrician also sees patients in the afternoon?

That is why the second part does not use special question word order.

Yes, in many contexts atiende would also work well.

• ¿...si la pediatra atiende también por la tarde?

Atender in medical contexts often means to attend to / see patients and may feel more immediately understandable to learners. However, recibir is also a perfectly natural choice in this kind of administrative or clinic-related question.

Depending on region and context, one may sound more common than the other, but both are good Spanish.

Spanish uses an opening question mark ¿ and a closing question mark ? around direct questions.

So:

• ¿Podría usted decirme si la pediatra recibe también por la tarde?

This helps the reader know from the start that the sentence is a question. It is standard punctuation in Spanish and should always be used in writing.