Category: Pediatrics (Shows all posts chronologically)
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Stop Saying “Half Brother”: Why Every Sibling Counts as a Whole Person, and Why Your Family Tree Doesn’t Need Footnotes
Picture this: you’re at a barbecue, holding a paper plate that can’t handle the weight of your potato salad, and someone introduces a nice young man as “my half brother.” You look him over. He seems complete. Two arms, two legs, one full head of hair, and a fully formed opinion about the Cowboys’ offensive…
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Big Pharma’s Greatest Hustle: How Pediatricians Get Rich Off Vaccines. Just Kidding, We Drive Toyotas
Every so often, someone on the internet works up the nerve to tell me the truth about my life. Usually it’s a man whose medical training consists of three podcasts and a supplement discount code. He tells me I vaccinate children because Big Pharma pays me to. That I’m a corporate shill. That I’m getting…
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Masks Forever: Because Apparently 2020 Never Ended in Some Households
I am honestly surprised by how many families are still bringing their children into clinic wearing masks, whether the child is sick or perfectly well. Years after the height of the pandemic, I walk into exam rooms and see little faces still covered, even when there is no particular outbreak, no special risk factor, and…
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Software Updates Aren’t Optional For Your Phone, Neither Is Medical Knowledge For Your Doctor
Doctors who don’t change their practice are a real problem, and patients should know it. Medicine advances; guidelines update; lives depend on clinicians who actually learn and adapt. When physicians cling to old habits instead of following current evidence, the result is not just intellectual stubbornness, it’s avoidable harm. Why this happens:Training inertia: Many doctors…
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The Math Behind Why Some Pediatricians Can’t Take Medicaid
Why My Pediatric Practice Cannot Survive on Good Vibes and Medicaid Reimbursement Several times a year, I have some version of this conversation:“We had a change in insurance. Do you take Medicaid?” And I hate answering it, because the question usually arrives after someone has lost a job, changed jobs, gotten divorced, had an employer…