My colleagues and I are often asked about vaccines outside of our work in the office, and here’s what I’d say to the parent who asked my Twitter follower and friend @SeattleMamaDoc about vaccines: “Yes, new father with the sweet baby tucked up next to your heart in that beautiful, Ergo infant sling…I’m one of those people […]
As a physician and mother, I long ago accepted the fact that I would be in charge of our children’s healthcare. I’m never going to be in charge of car care in our household, but I will gladly accept the task of keeping up with medical stuff.For the record, I’m their mom,not their pediatrician, and […]
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 […]
I have affectionately become known to my children as the Sleep Police. And I have been waiting for some great video clip on YouTube that summarizes the early, but emerging research on the importance of sleep to vindicate my grandmother. Sleep really is important. She was almost infamous for shooing her eight children to bed at a […]
With the emerging movement to delay or defer vaccinations, the landscape is beginning to shift in one very important aspect of preventative medicine. What used to be a given regarding vaccinations is no longer true. All children are not vaccinated. While most parents will vaccinate their children to prevent the spread infectious disease, the small […]