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Time to rebuild
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Are parents infecting their children with contagious negativity?
While the mental health of children is causing their parents to be anxious and depressed, this may be a bidirectional connection.
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Notes on direct admission of pediatric patients
Whether our local situation favors direct admission or ED preadmission evaluation, it is our job to make the communication flow with the patient’s...
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Returning to normal after concussion
I am heartened that we are now hearing voices suggesting a return to concussion management based on careful observation of the individual patient...
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Can pediatricians’ offices be urgent care centers again?
By failing to accept the challenge of seeing our patients in a timely manner for their minor problems we will continue to fragment their care and...
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Is it time to unionize?
Most of us are employees now. We need to finally accept that role and begin acting like employees working under stressful and unhealthy conditions...
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Pediatric vaccination rates have failed to recover
Over the last half century we have produced several generations of parents who have little knowledge and certainly no personal experience with a...
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The dark side of online mom groups
When it comes to subjects in which there is no one best answer, the relative anonymity of the Internet provides cover for language that can be...
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Physicians and your staffs: Be nice
If there is a low-hanging fruit in the customer service orchard it is one person at a time deciding to behave in a civil manner toward fellow...
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The tale of two scenarios of gender dysphoria
One size does not fit all for gender-dysphoric children and certainly their care should not be dictated by a politically influenced entity.
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Do scare tactics work?
As we craft our messaging have we thought enough about the potential side effects of our attempts at scaring the public into following our...
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Where a child eats breakfast is important
“Skipping breakfast and eating breakfast out of the home were linked to greater odds of psychosocial behavioral problems than eating breakfast at...
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How much do we really know about gender dysphoria?
My sense is that the general population perceives an increase in the prevalence of gender dysphoria; neither of two studies on this issue answers...
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Growing pains? ... Rubbish
Investigators who did a literature review on the topic determined that clinicians “should be wary of relying on the diagnosis to direct treatment...
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Good news, bad news
Anecdotal evidence about weight gain and a decline in fitness point to the conclusion that when children are no longer in school, they settle into...