Looking at my schedule a “new” 18-year-old patient was next. The name seemed familiar. My office manager said that she had been my patient the first five years of her life but then the family had moved out of state. They recently moved back to this area. The young lady needed some immunizations for […]
Read More →A new family for the first time came in with their 4-day-old son. The mother had delivered at a hospital where her obstetrician was in another city. It was an uncomplicated vaginal delivery with mom and baby doing just fine. She was breast feeding successfully and the baby had started gaining weight with no […]
Read More →Here is a publication packed full of information directed at parents. The American Academy of Pediatrics’, AAP, publication of Grand Rounds for June 2020, Vol. 43 NO 6 had several excellent articles to inform parents. EFFECT OF COOL RUNNING WATER FOR 20 MINUTES AFTER THERMAL BURN Page 63 was an article that documented […]
Read More →What could cause this pain in her arm? She didn’t fall or bump it. But she won’t move it. The office was just about to close when the phone rang and a frantic mom was calling about her 2 ½-year-old daughter who had injured her arm. She wanted to know if she should dare […]
Read More →Mrs. X brought her daughter to see me for a sick visit,thinking she might have an ear infection. I had seen her two weeks ago for her 9 month well-check.She was doing just fine in regard to her growth and development. For the past few days Briana had been fussy, irritable,eating less and rubbing […]
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