In this difficult time of Covid where tele-medicine is becoming more accepted I was scheduled to do a consult about possible learning disabilities in an 8-year-old second grader named Justin.   He was one of my regular patients. It was a bit strange seeing mom and Justin sitting at the kitchen table on a computer […]

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A teenage patient recently came to the office because of abdominal pain. It all started a couple of weeks before. She had never had stomach issues prior to that. It started as a dull, aching pain in the middle of her abdomen,not sharp nor did it radiate to other parts of her body.   She […]

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Ten-year-old Brett was brought to the office with a chief complaint of “headache”. Naturally this perked my interest.This could mean so many different things.   When I entered the room he was sitting with mom and looked to be very healthy. I asked him how his summer had been, how he was faring with the […]

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The recent issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, August 2020 is chucked full of articles related to the topic of ADHD. Here are the articles that are of significance:   ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER MEDICATION AND UNINTENTIONAL INJURIES IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS by Laura Ghirardi, MSc, et al.Page 944 points […]

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