Many people, when they tell me their kid is getting sick with a cold, start with "he was outside yesterday without a coat or shoes, and now look at him!", as if cold air and exposure gave him the illness. Many people believe that…
The parents got our attention by banging on the Ambulance Entrance doors. In their panic they had stopped there and did not read the signs about the walk-in entrance. They were panicking for good reason. The father had his three…
3:30 am: Mom brings the three-year old into the ER. He awoke screaming with ear pain, crying about "buzzing." I look in his ear with the otoscope and see a tan-colored insect, waving its floppy wings against the poor boy's…
Many parents fear that high fever will hurt their children. A common visit to my Emergency Department often starts with "My baby had a fever of 103, so I rushed right in." Many times I look the toddler over and he is jumping up…
This morning Tracy Wirtz and I talked about sun exposure and preventing sun burns. Skin cancer is more common than people think, and is quite preventable. Also, sun burn hurts and few things are more miserable than a child…
DODGING VOMIT I have gotten pretty good at dodging vomit over my years as a pediatrician. It only takes once or twice really to learn, after you have been hit. "Gastroenteritis", also called "stomach viruses," "stomach flu," or "…
