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Pediatrics

Podcast up: Breastfeeding

August 5, 2009 Pediatrics

My latest podcast on breastfeeding is up at http://housecalldoctor.quickanddirtytips.com and in iTunes.  My bottom line is that breastfeeding is the best way for babies to be fed.
When I was discussing this with Dr. Gwen, we got into an interesting discussion.  The dilemma pediatricians face is that if we strongly push nursing, we are criticizing anyone [...]

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Perilous Parenting

April 18, 2009 Pediatrics

A lot of the work I do as a pediatrician involves undoing the damage done by others.  Parents are assaulted constantly by barbs thrown from people who either are ignorant or should know better.  Many of these are even thrown by my colleagues.  It’s hard enough to have these independent little critters running around as [...]

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I am What They Think of

February 2, 2009 Being a Doctor

I have a mental picture of my pediatrician growing up.  Very nice, quiet, reserved, and wearing a white coat.  The exam rooms smelled strongly of rubbing alcohol.  I remember getting shots, gagging on the stick, and him looking in my eyes with the ophthalmoscope.
It’s not a bad memory.  I don’t remember having a whole lot [...]

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Trust Me

January 23, 2009 Pediatrics

I have never seen a case of epiglottitis.  I remember the stories I heard as a medical student: a young child comes to the ER with fever, drooling, and muffled voice – not just sick; a ticking time bomb.  I was told that if the child was disturbed – even something as small as putting [...]

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Entropy

December 5, 2008 Being a Doctor

entropy
noun Physics

a thermodynamic quantity representing the unavailability of a system’s thermal energy for conversion into mechanical work, often interpreted as the degree of disorder or randomness in the system. (Symbol: S)
figurative lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder : a marketplace where entropy reigns supreme.

We fight it constantly.  It is actually one of [...]

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Memes and Awards

November 23, 2008 Just Stuff Kind of Thingies

I haven’t done this for a while, but I have to step into the fray.  I first saw it on White Coat’s blog, then Grunt Doc weighed in; and not to be outdone by some ER docs, I had to see what kind of blogger I am.  So I went over to the Typealyzer, and [...]

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Getting in a good word

September 22, 2008 Pediatrics

Note: The Caption Contest is still going on…I am in the process of increasing the allowance of securing the judges.
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It’s a hard world for kids; they come into the world completely helpless to parents who don’t know much about how to raise them.  Some parents have a better idea than others, but as a [...]

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Pot, Meet Kettle

August 27, 2008 American Medicine

At the start of next year, the drug companies will no longer be giving pens and pads of paper to doctors.  The rules regarding pharmaceutical sales practices have grown progressively more stringent over the past few years.  The FDA already regulates what the reps say to physicians (they may only assert what is in the [...]

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Self-Assured Destruction

July 16, 2008 Being a Doctor

OK, it is time to put on your nostalgia caps and remember back to the cold war.  Those were the days, weren’t they?  “Nuclear Winter” was being thrown around like “Global Warming” is now.  Life went on like normal, but life was always lived with an underlying dis-ease that the end of everything was [...]

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"My Baby Turned Blue"

April 27, 2008 Being a Doctor

Being a parent is scary.
I remember when my first son was born I looked at him and was overwhelmed.  This person was my responsibility.  Even as a pediatrician, I felt a sense of being lost in the sea.  Remembering this feeling makes me have much more compassion on my patients.
The incredible fear the can [...]

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