In pediatric acute care medicine, there are many conditions that aren’t really seasonal and exist at a steady, constant rate: many conditions that we don’t talk about very much. Bladder infections, or urinary tract infections (known as UTIs) are in that category. I’ve diagnosed several of those lately, and I want to call them to […]

Most of the pediatrician-blogs and online mainstream mom/parenting pages are filled with back to school stuff and “best practices” for kids as they head back to the classroom, and it’s all important, right: which immunizations your child needs to get, how to get a school year bedtime routine back in place, which healthy options are […]

“Children are not just small adults.” Most people have heard this expression, stated liberally by people in healthcare worldwide. It is used in several different ways; sometimes as a defense mechanism when non-pediatric clinicians deploy it in (maybe) a patronizing way to suggest that somehow pediatric medicine is easier and simpler because kids are just […]