A year of paediatrics

Paediatric Grand Rounds

Clark Bartram is an American paediatrician

“who takes care of newborns of all shapes, sizes, and degrees of health, and a sceptic mucking about a credulous world.”

He also writes Unintelligent Design (Tales from the Not So Normal Newborn Nursery), and is presenting his choice of the best contributions to Paediatric Grand Rounds over the last year.

There are some gems.

A neonatologist’s (Neonatal Doc) strong and wise views on home births and the dangers thereof; Sam (Blog MD) looks at treating children with cancer; Steven Parker on treating children with antipsychotic medication, and the argument that ensued (Flea & Karoli) ; our very own Shinga (Breath Spa for Kids) looking at the use of steroids in children with asthma; Philip Gordon’s (Tales from the Womb) brilliant description of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and more, much more.

Dr Crippen was flattered to find his own article about the attempt to persuade mother’s that cow’s milk was poisoning their children included. This story grew out of an advertorial run by the BBC as “news” but then developed when the BBC back tracked, edited and largely re-wrote their article without acknowledging their mistake. Fortunately, the whole sordid story was tracked by the perfectly wonderful News Sniffer.

Take a look at a year of paediatrics on Unintelligent Design.