It’s not everyday that my patients 1. have a website, 2. are out to save my heart, 3. and write to tell me about it. But today, I was struck by the importance of what this patient had to say. At her neighborhood elementary school near my practice, there are some amazing kids and the grown-ups […]
I sat down to write my column for the week about baking bread with my children, and instead, I have chosen to introduce you to a gentleman and a scholar, my cherished mentor and pediatrician-hero, Dr. Walter Bundy, Jr. I made the acquaintance of Dr. Bundy more than twenty years ago when I was enrolled at […]
I’d like to introduce you to my friend, Harrison Strickler. Harrison is a hero. Every year in June, he organizes this amazing bike ride to raise money for those in the medical field working to find the cure for cancer. Like HIS hero, Lance Armstrong, Harrison is a cancer survivor. As a middle school student in […]
With the almost unlimited resources parents have at their disposal, finding health information is not hard. Finding GOOD health information is harder than ever, and I am increasingly aware that internet content demands the same critical eye that we must use to scrutinize nutrition labels and the side effects of a medicine. My ‘go to’ site […]
The Goodness Gorillas is a story about the children in one school who discover that “guerrilla is a word that people use when they are part of a group that is trying to change something.” It all started when I shared a video clip with my daughter that was sent to me from one of my Twitter […]
I love classical music. I love lots of different styles of music, actually. People who find my taste in music interesting are the ones who have whittled things down to minds that have a preference for right brain or left brain thinking. My left brain: it’s organized, methodical, standing in straight lines with all the laundry sorted, washed, […]