Hello, and welcome to Pediatric House Calls. I am…
A Physician board certified in Pediatric medicine with Clinical experience including caring for infants, children and teens – well these days mostly children and teens up to twenty-one;
An Administrator experienced in top medical management for several national health insurance companies;
An Author of health care manuals, newspaper columns and even children's stories;
A Business Medical Consultant for drug companies, insurance companies and
physician practices;
A Veteran of the US Navy in the Vietnam era;
And…
I make House-Calls.
“If we don’t get the sleep we need our brains aren’t fully charged for the things we need to do the following day” a Columbia Psychiatrist tells us. Not really a big surprise or new information for most of us; but, in this short video Dr. Blake Zakarin lets us in on the relationship between sleep, mental health and even suicide?
That’s something we should “wake up” and listen to.
See the video…
It was hard for me to believe too.
When I wrote the “out of site but not out of mind” post a week or so back, I realized that it had been over THREE YEARS since I went on “hiatus” from weekly blog posts for reasons I really didn’t want to share in the “blogosphere.”
And, I’m not sure I can even now; but, something inside pushes at me saying that it might help the… emptyness?… the regret?… the void?… go away.
It has to do with this man. He’s my dad. James Ray Jarrett, M Ed. — World War II veteran, master carpenter-educator, Farmer, Church Leader, Everyone’s Friend… Builder of houses and Toys… Doting Husband… frustrated patient.
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The fact that Cicely D. Williams, our next “most influential doctor of all time”, ended up a female prisoner of war should have been enough to make her renowned; but, …
being the DISCOVERER:
cinched the deal for Dr. Cicely D. Williams—a true doctor’s doctor!
I can’t believe that it’s been this long since I’ve uploaded a post on this site – truly!
Obviously I’m still interested in the site. After all, I keep paying the fees each year; but, the personal situation that I blamed in the last post for not uploading as frequently as usual, alas, has not relieved but only taken several morphs over the past year or so.
I still do have hopes for returning to the weekly posts; and, perhaps most discouraging to me, I continually find information that I believe all parents should know and I should write about but don’t have the where-with-all to do it at the time.
We just keep on keepin’ on though, don’t we? YOU hang in there, and so will I and we’ll get back in the swing of things.
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In the mean time. Remember that there’s a grundle of topics already written about that are easily found with the search button (up there in the corner somewhere – and all down the right side-bar).
Please forgive the hiatus in posting. Personal issues make it difficult to create content currently; so, please peruse the hundreds of postings made during the past several years, or use the custom search box to find topics you like, until I resume weekly posts.
OH NO! NOT AGAIN! Most of my life and medical career has been spent when tobacco profits, lies and scams have taken precedence in public policy over the actual lives and well-being of our children and even society as a whole.
Listen as a Yale Professor of Psychiatry, doctor and mother, Suchitra Krishnan-Sarind, explains THE TRUTH ABOUT VAPING.
See the video…
I wish the discussion about this topic had started at least 50 years earlier: Just when should school start for teens? Is there a guideline for how much a child/teen should sleep? What’s the difference? It can’t be that big a deal… can it?
Watch as Wendy Troxel explains to a TED audience how Teen’s brains and life-experience can actually be harmed by too little sleep and arising too early.
See the video…