Welcome to this site. It is about ill and injured children – what their needs are, how we care for them, and what happens to them. You will find some of this information in my award-winning book, Your Critically Ill Child: Life and Death Choices Parents Must Face. It tells you the personal stories of children and their families and how they and their doctors together learned the best way to understand and take care of each other. Library Journal named it to its list of “Best Consumer Heath Books of 2007.” You can read the first chapter here.
Getting the best care for your child demands good communication between parents and doctors. Too often this doesn’t happen. A common reason is parents just don’t understand how doctors think and solve problems. You can learn how to prevent this from happening to your child in my book, How to Talk to Your Child’s Doctor: A Handbook for Parents. You can read the first chapter here.
To get better, sick children need to heal. We take healing for granted, but in fact it is a wonderfully intricate process. We rarely think about how this amazing chain of events occurs, especially down at the level of the cellular actors in the healing drama. You can meet and read about all of them in my newest book, How Your Child Heals: An Inside Look At Common Childhood Ailments. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, said the book “tackles a range of childhood injuries, illnesses, and common diseases in a fun and educational way,” and calls it “wonderfully comprehensive and wildly entertaining.” You can read the first chapter here.
Finally, I invite you to read and comment about these issues on my blog. It’s recently been named among the top ten pediatrician blogs by Vitals.com. I’ve also been named to a list of ”The 50 Best Mayo Clinic Doctors — Ever.” You can also ask me other questions if you wish. If you like Twitter, you can follow me here. Of course, not being your child’s doctor, I cannot give you specific medical advice about your child – that is something only your child’s doctor can do.
