It was around 10:00p.m. when I got the call from the exchange. “My daughter is 16 months old and she has a fever of 101 degrees. Should I take her to an urgent care or the emergency room?” the distressed mom asked. In 35 years of practice I cannot count how many of these […]
Read More →My youngster is starting high school. He wants to try different sports, but I think he should concentrate on one only and become proficient in it. What do you think? SPORT SPECIALIZATION AND RISK OF OVERUSE INJURIES: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW WITH META-ANALYSIS by David H. Bell, PhD. ATC, et.al. PEDIATRICS, Vol. 142, Nu. 3 […]
Read More →Measles vaccinations are on everybody’s minds. We need to know the schedule in order to fully protect our children. My next patient, was a baby girl coming in for her 9 month well-check.Looking at the chart I noticed that she was only 8 months old. When I questioned the parents why she was coming […]
Read More →How destructive can a simple iPhone that everybody owns be? We have all read newspaper and magazine articles as well as heard TV news pundits expressing the threat that I phones present to our adolescents. Social media intimidation, bullying and gossiping have put many teens into a depressive funk. This leads to withdrawal from […]
Read More →Charles,an active 8-year-old boy, was playing and sustained a 3 inch laceration of his mid forearmwhile climbing over a chain link fence trying to retrieve a ball. Mom cleaned and covered it, and brought him to our office. It was a deep clean cutresembling one made with a scalpel. After numbing the area well, […]
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