A “first” memory of my childhood was going door-to-door collecting for “penny’s by the inch” fund for Polio, a untreatable virus which either killed a person or sent them into an “iron lung” until the virus ran its course. MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staph Aureus) is a bug-a-boo that this generation needs to fight because we’re running out of antibiotics that work (for reasons covered elsewhere).
Ok, lets see how astute you are about summer medical problems in children. You are the doctor and an adolescent comes into your office with swollen eyes and a rash over his face and arms with blisters which itch terribly. (more…)
This 11 year old boy has definite opinions, about food especially. “We can pay the farmers… or we can pay the hospital” he told the hundreds of attendees from the stage of the TEDxNextGeneration conference. The kid got laughs and applause.