Defeaters of Cancer, Winners of Nobel Prize
It’s not easy for children to change allegiances at the drop of a judge’s gavel. Divorce is perceived differently between parents and children and it’s not unusual for terrible misunderstandings to occur. Here is a true life example of a “part-time kid.”
I’m posting this as a “refresher” for what we’ve already discussed about Rheumatic Fever in previous articles. It’s basic and doesn’t really deliver an understanding of what this disease has done to children in years past or present. It’s full of mnemonic’s, diagnostic criteria, treatment and explanations (perhaps on a nursing student level) but doesn’t convey the heart-break and life-long handicaps inflicted upon its victims.
Good pediatricians and pediatric nurses don’t in any way take “strep throats” lightly and neither should you. Remember take all your medicine for the entire length of time even though the symptoms will clear within a few days!
[A physician requests the source of the statistics used in a prior article.] (more…)
[A 3-year-old with recurrent bouts of vomiting and coughing phlegm in the mornings is thought to have a “form of tonsillitis” and her mother wonders about a tonsillectomy.] Read more→
[Site no longer active] This video is presented by kind of a “goofball”; but, the content (even though presented a bit theatrically) is fairly solid and gives some great advice for us to use while those who can try and figure out how to dig us out of this hole with bacteria developing antibiotic resistance. […]
This is a “link post” which, as you know, enables me to provide “sidebar” information to you which I find useful from other sites on the web. Also, as you know, I do not link to sites full of “agendas,” “ads” or monetary gain – no matter how good they are. Today’s link: Medical consent […]