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This young boy is going to give me a heart attack. Laceration.
They are at the ER. I’m in clinic and can’t go over fast enough. Only two more patients and then I’ll be right there.

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How often do you sit in silence?
How often do you give eye contact?
How often do you sit in silence and make eye contact?
Lance posted Shhh…at his blog The Jungle of Life yesterday. He discussed silence and how it important it is to have in our life.  Silence gives us the opportunity to grow and understand [...]

Shilpan of Success Soul recently wrote a great post compiling some ways to supercharge your brain. This sparked some debate at the notion that hugging a stranger would help your brain.  He was called a “Tree-Hugging Hippie” for this radical idea that touch can be helpful for our well being. Well Shilpan, you were right [...]

When you’re a pediatrician you just have to expect that you’re going to be talking about the same thing over and over and over. I don’t mind. It’s the patients and their families that make it fresh.
I’ll keep giving the same info because I know it’s the first time time my families have heard it.
Having [...]

We’ve been living in an egg free world recently. The fridge holds three cartons of eggs that I have yet to throw away. Any day now it’ll go in the trash but I’m hoping we’ll find out that these food allergies are just crazy talk.
We’ll all shake our heads and say. “That silly Dr. Cason. [...]

He slept but not soundly. His breathing calmed after the Albuterol but then slowly revved up again to 50-60 breaths per minute. We tossed and turned and back and forth I went asking myself, “Should I go back to the ER. Will they admit him again? Can I deal with that again? Can I [...]