pediatric housecalls Robert R. Jarrett M.D. M.B.A. FAAP
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.
[Guest Author] This article on the “Most Important Parenting” is the fourth in a series of guest posts from a pediatrician I’ve never met but have bonded with over sharing ideas, opinions and experiences; including having a penchant for medical blogging. Read more →
[Guest Author] This article on the “bad ages” for parenting is the third in a series of guest posts from another pediatrician I’ve never met but have bonded with. We share ideas, opinions and experiences including having a penchant for medical blogging. Read more →
[Guest Author] I’ve mentioned before how I stumbled upon another “blogger” on the internet and bonded instantly, like he was a “brother from another mother” based on the fact that we had been writing similar pediatric articles completely independently for years. His URL is up for sale now, and I’ve lost track of him, but his content will be here for safe keeping until he wants them back.
This one: “Choose your battles” is “survival parenting 101.” It merely means to save your energy, and credibility, for the “big stuff” (and there is enough of that to be going on with).Read more →
This article entitled: Real Pediatrics is to mark the beginning of a series of thirty-two guest posts from a pediatrician I’ve never met but have bonded with over sharing ideas, opinions and experiences; including having a penchant for medical blogging and even a similar sounding last name: Dr. Gregory Alan Barrett,, Greg for short.
I’ve lost track of him following Covid but recently found his site has been “camped on” by someone having taken over the URL and trying to gouge someone into buying it—obviously a ‘something-for-nothing-flipper’ using the popularity my friend created. I’ve located most of his articles (I think) and have decided to re-post them here for safe keeping until he wants them back (or this blog suffers a similar fate).
They are nearly all precisely as he wrote them; except, of necessity, I had to add back the headings and photographs because they had not been archived in the ‘way-back machine.’ Additionally, I did, on occasion follow the spell-checkers advice as well as update medical advice on at least one post (a thing I believe the good doctor would do himself if he were here).
At home as much with the likes of Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin, Barbara Walters, Oprah Winfrey, and David Letterman as he was with the operating microscope and patients, Doctor Charles D. Kelman gave back the gift of sight to millions of people with his treatment of cataracts through the invention of phacoemulsification, making him number 27 on our list of the most influential doctors of all time.
Siblings sharing a vacation bed – “A nickel to the first one asleep”It seems like I can’t escape dealing with sleep problems (yep, they’re that common) and just as difficult to answer.
Narrowing it a bit (at least in my mind) to three groups: Infants, toddler-big kids (schoolers) and biggest kids (teens).
“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.
