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Am I a Mean Mom?
That fateful day, when my nine-year-old daughter’s dentist told us that she needed two teeth pulled. Baby teeth, but they were locked in, so out they must go. “Just make an appointment, and we’ll give her a little laughing gas.” Laughing gas? Anesthesia? For two baby teeth? Hmm, I thought. What ever happened to Novocain […]
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The Cockroach in His Ear
“You did what??” I was having a conversation with a friend of mine about some of the most amazing medical cases I’ve seen and surgeries I’ve done—to make kids breathe better, to save their lives, to better their lives, or to ward off infections. But when I told him, as an aside, in order to […]
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Informed Dissent
Just when we thought the controversy of immunization had reached its height, there is yet a new twist being brought to the California legislature. While many parents with school-aged children have been documenting their refusal to have their children immunized with signed waivers brought to school officials, there is now a plan afoot to mandate […]
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Are we nuts over vaccines?
By Nina Shapiro, MD Author of “Take a Deep Breath: Clear the Air for the Health of Your Child” “Nut-free”, “Peanut-free”, and the latest and greatest: “Nut sensitive”. The rage in preschools and elementary schools across the country is to protect our nut-challenged children from nut exposure, even if it means not exposing them to […]
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When is a Cold More Than a Cold?
All kids get colds. In fact, it’s not uncommon for kids to get up to ten colds per year. If you have more than one child, and one child’s cold comes after the others, as is usually the case, it is very likely that you are dealing with someone’s cold for half of the year. […]
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