The 30 Million–Word Gap
This Viewpoint describes the difference in vocabulary between low-income and higher-income children and how to use this gap as a tool to support child development.
View ArticleWord Gap Redux
This Viewpoint discusses features of communication between parents and children that promote children’s language acquisition.
View ArticleParenting as Primary Prevention
This Viewpoint discusses the importance of pediatric and family medical homes in assisting parents in the tasks of protecting, nurturing, guiding, and educating their children.
View ArticleLeveraging Behavioral Insights to Promote Vaccine Acceptance
This Viewpoint discusses several approaches to increase vaccination acceptance in the United States 1 year after the measles outbreak that originated in Disneyland and has been attributed to parents...
View ArticleFamily Matters
December 27, 2014. My father lost consciousness in the bathroom. The paramedics took him to the emergency department, where I held a pink bucket in front of his face and watched as he vomited blood...
View ArticleFrom Emotional Tsunami to Empathy
Thin and dark-eyed, the teenaged boy first entered my primary care clinic a few years earlier when I was beginning my pediatric residency and he was beginning adolescence. During the time I have known...
View ArticleTattoos, Beer, and Bow Ties The Limits of Professionalism in Medicine
I was at Émile’s bedside, one of the newly admitted preemies. I didn’t hear anybody enter the room and so was surprised when a boisterous male voice asked:
View ArticleResponsive Parenting Intervention and Rapid Infant Weight Gain
This randomized clinical trial examines the effect of a responsive parenting intervention on infant weight gain between birth and 28 weeks and overweight status at age 1 year.
View ArticleThank You
Some days I don’t know if I can continue my training as a pediatric intensivist.
View ArticleTalking About Progressing Disease With Terminally Ill Adolescents
This review discusses how clinicians should navigate end-of-life conversations with adolescent patients when there is resistance to do so from parents.
View ArticleThank You
Some days I don’t know if I can continue my training as a pediatric intensivist.
View ArticleShared Decision Making for Children With Trisomy 13 and 18
Most clinicians today cannot personally recall a time when physicians routinely decided the course of action for patients. In the mid-20th century, ethical and legal norms shifted away from paternalism...
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