Recently, I asked one of my 3-year-old patients. “Jamie, what do you want to be when you grow up?” “A pig, I wanna be a pig”, she said smiling broadly, and very proudly. “Huh? A what?” I queried. Her mum who had burst into laughter...
In my work, I talk a lot about the merits of fasting. There are many iterations of intermittent fasting. In this post, I introduce you to physician Dr. Bert Herring as he promotes a version of intermittent fasting that he calls Fast-5. Fast-5: The 5-hour diet Fast-5...
Last week, on pediatric emergency medicine, I remember fondly my 20-month old patient with an upper respiratory infection. Even though his mother had brought him to the ER to get help for him, he wouldn’t cooperate with me to allow me to examine him and give him...
