Child in Mind

Recently I attended a meeting of a working group of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics(MCAAP) The task of this ...

In 2002, when I was practicing general pediatrics, I was called to our local emergency room to see a teenager who had attempted suicide by i...

In the blogging world there is a lot of understandable outrage about this issue (though surprisingly little in the press-nothing in the New ...

I recently heard a great story from a parent in my behavioral pediatrics practice. Their son was very active and had a hard time settling do...

As I sat down to write this blog post, I was torn between two stories. One, in yesterday's Boston Globe Harvard Doctors Punished Over Pa...

Can I practice what I preach? I was asking myself just that question when last week, my 16-year-old daughter decided that a trip to the mal...

I am most grateful to my patients, who are often my best teachers. I am moved to write about them, to spread the knowledge they have given ...