Category: Medications
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Sure Kid, You Can Carry Your Own EpiPen, The Data Says You’ll Leave It in Your Gym Bag
Almost weekly, my inbox fills with the same PDF: the school self carry form. One box for “student is capable of carrying and self-administering emergency epinephrine,” one line for my signature, and one implicit assumption that a twelve year old who cannot reliably carry a library book is a competent field medic. And every day,…
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A Pediatrician Breaks Down Why Zithromax Keeps Getting Prescribed For Infections it Can’t Actually Treat
Let’s talk about America’s favorite antibiotic: the Z-Pak. Five little pills, once a day, and you’re done in five days. It’s the fast food of medicine — convenient, addictive, and nutritionally useless for what you actually ordered it for. Here’s how this goes, roughly forty times a year in my practice. A parent calls, sometimes…
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Amoxicillin Is Cheap, Boring, and Right — Fight Me
Amoxicillin: The Beige Cardigan of Antibiotics (And Why That’s a Compliment) Every few weeks, a parent sits across from me, phone already open to a Facebook mommy group, and says some version of: “Can we just do the stronger antibiotic this time? Amoxicillin never seems to work.” I get it. Amoxicillin has the branding problem…
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So You Want to Put Your Kid on Lifetime Wegovy Instead of Teaching Him to Eat a Vegetable
Let me set the scene. A parent walks into my office, sits down, and says, “Doc, Timmy had two cookies at the birthday party. Should we start him on a GLP-1?” I want to be clear up front: I am not anti-medicine. I am not anti-science. I went to medical school specifically so I could…