Mrs. X brought her 5-year-old son to the office with a rash. The nurse ushered them into a room and took his vitals. Before entering I grabbed the chart to review it. I was intrigued upon seeing the chief complaint to be possible shingles. Mom explained, “I know I shouldn’t have done this, but […]
Read More →Mom brought five-year-old Braden to the office for a sick visit. He had a fever that started two days ago and now had a headache, nausea and abdominal pain. What prompted today’s visit was a rash on his trunk. Mom said she had just assumed he had the flu. She had been treating him […]
Read More →As summer comes to an end our office is full of patients who need their physicals for school and sports. I was doing such a sports physical on a teenage patient who was on the high school water polo team. Needless to say he was in perfect shape. His mop of blond hair was […]
Read More →When should I be concerned about my moles? How dangerous are they? Recently I had a number of teenagers come to the office for their yearly physicals. They had been put on hold because of the Covid pandemic, and now that there was optimism about high school sports opening up after the new year […]
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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