One afternoon next week you are aroused from the kitchen table, where you are sitting paying your bills, by some banging on your front room door. It is the neighbor boy who has come to tell you that your five-year-old son was just hit in the head with a rock and is crying. (more…)
“That gunky, smelly, puss draining out of your son’s ear is an infection called ‘Otitis Externa‘ – or possibly Otitis Media that has ruptured and is draining. With the history you gave I’m guessing it’s ‘externa’ – you can call it ‘Swimmer’s Ear‘ but I don’t, cause it’s certainly caused by a lot more things […]
In my youth Ansel Adams was the world’s most renowned photographer. The whole world knew and loved his breathtaking landscapes and his conservationist agenda. Today it seems there isn’t a person who hasn’t seen and wondered about Anne Geddes’ startlingly-endearing photographs of newborn infants in egg crates, and lettuce leaves.
[Acne – and the historic treatment with radiation.] (more…)
A preliminary answer to a puzzled teens online question to his doctor after being embarrassed by girls at a party who asked him “what do you wear, boxers, briefs or commando?” He asked, “is there a best?” and his doctor asked if I’d take a crack at answering him.
[Site no longer active] This video is presented by kind of a “goofball”; but, the content (even though presented a bit theatrically) is fairly solid and gives some great advice for us to use while those who can try and figure out how to dig us out of this hole with bacteria developing antibiotic resistance. […]
“The talk” doesn’t seem to be enough anymore in the mine-field that is a teenager’s life where drugs and sex related issues are commonplace. Here’s a link to what the Mayo Clinic has to say about talking to your teens about sex. [By posting this I am NOT endorsing the Mayo Clinic in any way; […]