I read a touching story this morning:
‘Hurricane’ girl tries to ride to Ohio
Fri Aug 17, 8:01 PM ET
An 8-year-old girl who recently moved to Florida caused a panic when she tried to ride back home to Ohio on her bicycle out of fear of hurricanes. A sheriff’s helicopter, search dogs and neighbors found the girl [...]

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One of the most difficult conversations you can have as a physician is to have to inform new parents that their child has a "birth defect."  As I stated in a previous post, I like to tell parents that their child is "perfect" whenever I can, but the feeling of knowing there is something wrong [...]

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I had a mother tell me yesterday, "Dr. Rob, I remember so clearly when you walked in to my hospital room when my daughter was born 10 years ago. You said ‘I just want you to know that your daughter looks perfect.‘ I was just so happy that everything was OK, but you said that [...]

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My training in both internal medicine and pediatrics is generally a complementary thing. My internal medicine helps me care for medically complex kids and understand medications better, while my pediatrics training lets me handle adults with congenital diseases and many infectious diseases better. Yet there are some areas where the two areas of training come [...]

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Overhead page at the office.
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Infant from out of town presents with fussiness and perceived arm pain. X-Ray reveals mid-shaft spiral fracture of the humerus. Spiral fractures are caused by twisting of the limb with a fair amount of torsion. A very high percentage of these turn out to be abuse. There is a chance this [...]

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