tags: pediatrics
2003
February
March
- 2003 Mar 16
- I Will Never Understand
It is impossible to change someone if they don’t want to change. How tragic.
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- Burning Out
Sometimes you just gotta curl up into a little ball and cry yourself to sleep. Then it’s easier to pull yourself together the next.
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- The Catcher in the Rye
I need to figure out why I want to do Pediatrics.
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2005
October
- 2005 Oct 12
- voiceless
so it seems that I have lost my voice. I woke up this morning and didn't realize that I didn't have one until I went to buy coffee. Huh. I guess that's what is unique about living alone (this is the first time I've ever done it) I can go for nearly three hours without having to utter a word to anyone. Even in the household where I hated one of my roommates, this wasn't really possible.
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2006
March
- 2006 Mar 19
- music and the oddest memories
Bizarrely, as I’m trying to sew closed a gaping wound across a toe, MTV plays the following songs:
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August
- 2006 Aug 9
- ephemerality of happiness
My closest friends always admonish me that I think way too much, which is most certainly true. If I had the knack for shutting off my brain at least partially, I would probably enjoy life a whole hell of a lot more. Unfortunately, when I give it a try, it seems like my brain shuts off completely, and a lot of untoward and sometimes disastrous things tend to happen.
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2007
August
- 2007 Aug 12
- fatherhood
Odd, the synchronicity of this post from someone who is going to be a father. (P.S., the asking of highly detailed, extremely specific questions is not a sign that someone is going to be a good father. In fact, it is extremely annoying to the average health care provider, whether midwife, nurse, or physician, and for some reason, the information they have never seems to comport with either the reasonable guidelines suggested by the American Academy of Pediatrics, or the reasonable guidelines afforded by what is traditionally called “common sense.” One could even go as far to say that such nit-picking and attention to often irrelevant detail is a sign that things may go very badly, and that this individual may very well stifle all things that are good about being a child. The specific details of feeding regimens—except in regards to what will allow your baby not to choke to death from aspirating milk—are pretty pointless, since the correct answer to the question of “When should I feed my baby?” is “When he/she is hungry” and believe me, they’ll tell you when they’re hungry, and the correct answer to “What should I feed my baby?” is “Milk” for the first six months of life. There is a raging debate as to whether you should use breast milk or formula, and the data has a lot of good things to say about breast milk, but if, for whatever reason, this is not going to be an option, I would not let your baby starve to death because someone tells you that formula is evil. Bottom line: you’re doing fine, in my opinion.1
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October
- 2007 Oct 29
- flashback: the unit
Love is watching someone die.
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2009
April
- 2009 Apr 1
- house is a neonatologist, too?
I always get hooked by the opening song, "Teardrop" by Massive Attack, which is like one of my favorite songs. So the episode I'm watching right now has House seeing babies. Crazy.
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2016
February
- 2016 Feb 19
- Hair Grooming Syncope
I am almost certain that this is the reason why one of my patients recently syncopized.
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May
- 2016 May 26
- Corporal Punishment
While I am not a parent, my job does require me to regularly counsel parents on how they treat their children, and I try to make recommendations based on the best available evidence….
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June
- 2016 Jun 21
- Screen Time Recommendations
It is difficult and probably impractical to have draconian limitations on screen time, and previous guidelines have been based mainly on passive viewing of TV screens, but I've seen enough kids showing up with back pain and with headaches due to eye strain as well as dry eyes and blurry vision from excessive use of mobile devices, not to mention difficulty with sleep onset, as well as the many adverse effects of being sedentary that it's clear that there should be some limitations.
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