The abdominal pain presented just like appendicitis. One needs to cover all the bases.   It was a typical busy day at the office. I saw on the schedule that my next patient was a teenage male coming in for abdominal pain. I watched him walk down the hall as the nurse put him and […]

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It seems that retractions of sensational articles never appear on the front page of the media that heralded the original announcement. That is exactly what happened with the retraction notice for the article originally attempting to link autism with the MMR vaccine.   The Los Angeles TIMES placed the following piece in the body of […]

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As most of our families know our practice is right in the middle of the “sick” season.   There are many illnesses we are seeing in the office right now. But one of the more frustrating and exhausting for parents can be acute gastroenteritis, AGE for short, or more commonly described as the “stomach flu.” […]

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It was a busy Sunday afternoon and my weekend on call was coming to an end.   With winter officially here pediatric illnesses had picked up in both the office and the hospital. There were the typical viral upper respiratory tract infections, flare-ups of asthma, ear infections and gastrointestinal infections. It is a predictably busy […]

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