Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join Wendy L. Hunter, a pediatrician, as she shares a powerful story about a teenage girl found alone, having a seizure outside her clinic’s front door. This incident prompted Wendy t…
Category: Pediatrics
Understanding migraine symptoms in children
If you’ve experienced a migraine headache before, the sensation is often very distinct: throbbing pain, sensitivity to light and loud noise, and sometimes nausea and vomiting. Migraine symptoms can be uncomfortable and distressing. Equally concer…
How junk food marketers exploit children’s impact on family food choices
Would you let a clown influence what brand of car you buy? How about choosing your household appliances based on the advice of a cartoon bird or tiger? Probably not. But young people in your family will likely let cartoons and mascots influence where y…
Juggling medicine and motherhood: a doctor’s journey
When my children were in preschool, parents often commented at school events that they did not know I worked or was a physician. I never knew how to handle that double-edged sword. Ostensibly a compliment, their surprise at a working parent’s pre…
How early intervention can transform a child’s speech development
The American Academy of Pediatrics’ recent decision to move away from the “wait and see” philosophy to a more proactive intervention when dealing with childhood obesity got me reflecting on how “wait and see” is still used…
Adolescent medicine at risk [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join Meredithe McNamara, a pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist, in discussing the challenges adolescent medicine physicians face due to the current political climate. We explore…
How a teenager with seizures became the face of trauma-informed care
A teenage girl was found alone, having a seizure on a bench outside our clinic’s front door. She had never been inside our clinic, but it was our fault she was seizing. The office manager from the dentist’s office upstairs found the girl as…
The surprising impact of medical students on patients
There are a few clinical scenarios that stand out to me from my undergraduate medical education. I completed a combined MD/MPH program, and I remember coming back from the year of public health, inserted between years two and three of medical school, f…
Closing the empathy gap in health care [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Nicole Rochester is a pediatrician and advocate for improving the doctor-patient relationship. She shares her personal experiences and discusses the importance of intentional human connecti…
Gender-neutral registration for unresponsive individuals
When registering individuals who are unresponsive to stimuli, unconscious, unaware, or lacking alertness, it has been customary to assign them the names John Doe or Jane Doe, based on physical characteristics, while also assigning their sex accordingly…
