This week’s guest columnists are Marie Baker, MD and Chris Clark MD, family practice residents at Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics.
4 year old boys are usually active dudes. Running around, yelling and laughing, settling…
This 16 year-old boy hurt his knee playing basketball, banging it into another player's knee. He was brought in limping by his mom. "Did you give him anything for pain?" I asked. "I gave him one of my prescription ibuprofens," mom…
It was morning in Honduras on my most recent medical mission. I padded in my pajamas to the room where the coffee was supposed to be, but alas it wasn't out yet. I went back to my room, got dressed, back to the coffee table-…
In 2014, I wrote about traveling with kids. I had just read a book about disasters, and piled on stories of surviving plane crashes and hotel fires. Friends gave me more practical advice for this summer . Jane Anderson Lemoine of…
When the sun goes down, people worry more. They stay awake at night worrying about their job, their relationships, their finances. There are few other people awake with whom to talk the worries out. And when kids get sick with…
