Lone star
Last night I went looking on the Internet for an old friend from medical school. After a couple of minutes with Google, I was able to find her faculty page with the children’s hospital in the city where we went… Continue Reading
Month: October 2011
Yes, our advice about TV makes sense
Over at Slate, Farhad Manjoo has one of those irritating, self-consciously counter-intuitive essays that seem to define the site. He goes after pediatricians for our advice about television for toddlers, which he thinks (according to his subheader) doesn’t make sense. … Continue Reading
Gratitude
I came out of the closet when I was nineteen. The details aren’t the kind of thing I’m inclined to share in a forum such as this, other than to say that it was difficult at the time but everything… Continue Reading
Stupid Tuesday Questions, Healthy Living edition
On days when I have a hard time thinking of something to write about, it’s tempting to head over to Huffington Post and find something inane on their “healthy living” page to rant about. But just like I have no… Continue Reading
Not so fast, Sully
Andrew Sullivan bestows a coveted Yglesias Award Nomination on one David French for writing this in the Washington Post: “In my years as an evangelical conservative lawyer and activist, I have learned (and lived) the painful reality that we evangelicals… Continue Reading
Because it’s a holiday…
but I have to work, I’m going to post something frivolous about a professional pet peeve. Parents of the world, take note! If your reason for bringing your child in for an appointment is a skin lesion, and the lesion… Continue Reading
Thank God for this product
I could tell something was wrong the minute I stepped into the exam room from the oddly canted way the patient was sitting on the table. “What seems to be the trouble?” I asked, though I already knew the answer.… Continue Reading
Distinctions without differences
I work with three nurse practitioners. I think the world of all of them. The way our practice is structured, we each have a panel of patients for whom we are the primary providers, but we take care of each… Continue Reading
Stupid Tuesday Questions, Divoon and Serene Edition
My two-year-old son is hopelessly addicted to music videos. It stems from my extreme distaste for most music written for children, which I usually find saccharine and mind-numbing. Instead, my husband and I play music that we like and hope… Continue Reading
Willed ignorance
Over at American Times, LOOG princeps E.D. has a post up about abstinence-only sex education. Specifically, he highlights a recent study that reports on the sexual activity of young evangelical Christians, those who one might presume would be most likely… Continue Reading