pediatric housecalls Robert R. Jarrett M.D. M.B.A. FAAP

Showing posts from: February 2024

Parenting: The Two Greatest Barriers To Parenting – Money and Education

[Guest Author] This article on the barriers to parenting effectively is the fifteenth in a series of guest posts from a pediatrician I’ve never met but have bonded with over shared ideas, opinions and experiences; including having a penchant for medical blogging. His URL is up for sale, and I’ve lost track of him, but his content will be here for safe keeping until he wants it back.

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Three Magic Questions of Breastfeeding

[Guest Author] This article on breastfeeding is the fourteenth in a series of guest posts from a pediatrician I’ve never met but have bonded with from sharing ideas, opinions and experiences; including having a penchant for medical blogging. His URL is up for sale, and I’ve lost track of him, but his content will be here for safe keeping until he wants it back.

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Obscure Medical Terms

You simply must name things. There’s no getting ’round it. No matter who or how many of the uninitiated rag on you or shame you for being erudite, grandiose or obscure, you can’t just keep using a thing’s description as its name!

You just have to give it a name if you’re going to have a discussion about “that odd noise emanating from your stomach when you’re hungry” or “you know that massive pain in your brain and entire face when you eat ice cream”… even if its name IS barely pronounceable.
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Parenting: My Malaprop Mom

[Guest Author] This article on Medical Malapropisms is the thirteenth in a series of guest posts from a pediatrician I’ve never met but have bonded with over shared ideas, opinions and experiences; including having a penchant for medical blogging.

His URL is up for sale, and I’ve lost track of him, but his content will be here for safe keeping until he wants them back. This one seems to be a shout-out to his mother (perhaps on Mother’s Day or for her birthday) and is similar to a post I wrote about “Yogi-isms” a while back.

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