I definitely feel that the best gifts in parenting are the small things; for example, "healing hugs." Some time ago in my medical school training, I was assigned to a hospital emergency room. A child about thirteen was brought in by ambulance (more…)
If other pediatricians are like I am, one of the most common topics they discuss on the phone is fever. Callers sometimes simply state, “My baby has a fever” or “John has a fever of 103” or “Sally has a fever again; she needs some antibiotics,” – as if fever were the disease. (more…)
“The sad thing is,” says Kio Stark, “that in many parts of the world we are raised to believe that strangers are dangerous by DEfault, we can’t trust them, they might hurt us. But most strangers aren’t dangerous, we’re uneasy around them… we don’t know what their intentions are. So, instead of using our perceptions and making choices, we rely on this category of ‘STRANGER.'”
“I know that not every person on the street has the best intentions. It is good to be friendly and it’s good to learn when not to be; but, none of that means we have to be afraid.” And, in the long run WE LOOSE.
[An international reader of the blog whose “licensed doctor for the young/kids” diagnoses “tonsillitis” and “Typhoid fever” frequently making him confused.] (more…)
[A 3-year-old with recurrent bouts of vomiting and coughing phlegm in the mornings is thought to have a “form of tonsillitis” and her mother wonders about a tonsillectomy.] Read more→
A link to a follow-up blog post by Hayley Kaplan. This time giving advice for parents.
[Page is no longer served on the CDC site – an odd thing for a major government entity like the CDC to do; but, there you are.] Body Mass Index (BMI) uses weight and height to calculate a reliable indicator of body fatness for most people in order to screen for potential health problems. Here […]
