You’re married with 2.5 children living on nice street in a well-developed part of the city. Your two school-aged children attend the neighborhood public school elementary school (the 0.5 is still percolating). The schools are good. Good enough at least. You don’t live in the wealthiest part of town, so the school system isn’t overflowing…
As an emergency medicine physician I frequently have to perform procedures on patients (or provide sedation as a consultant performs a procedure). Of the procedures we perform in the emergency department and have time to discuss with families, the spinal tap, a.k.a. the lumbar puncture (LP for short), seems to instill the most fear in…
Welcome to the Rogue Dad Book Club — Better Than Oprah (copyright 2018)! I love to read, and used to be a voracious reader. Unfortunately I’ve drifted away from reading books over the past few years and mostly been reading online content. In the interest of mental health, I am starting to read books again, and am…
A 4 Year Old’s Worries Are Deeper Than You Think Last week was my 100th post and I completely forgot to commemorate it. So to commemorate it, here is my 101st post. Death and dying — it is one of the first topics I was taught about in medical school. I was fortunate to attend…
What is the right age to give your child a bag of clothes, a toothbrush, a few dollars, and tell him (or her) to survive the night? What age is ideal to let your child eat pure sugar for 3 straight hours while watching 3 screens and going to bed at 3am? What milestone have…
The past couple weeks I discussed my addiction to carbs sugar sweets and my concerns about how poor diet and exercise are reflected in my weight trends. This week I’m going to delve a little more into ups and downs of my weight, provide my cholesterol data, and discuss strategies for better health. This is…
Last week I disclosed my not-so-secret addiction to unhealthy food, and desire to improve my health as part of an effort to increase my accountability. This week I am going to give some of the data. This is Part II in a three-part series. Read Part I and Part III. The Beauty of Smartphones Smartphones…
A discussion of why cheating is okay, why middle class people are going broke, how a great NFL player taught someone to say “no” and the intersection of The World Cup and race. This is TL;DR (Too Long, Didn’t Read) Tuesdays (with a slightly different title). I summarize and discuss two articles — one from…
I’ve written before that I am not a believer in New Year’s Resolutions. I am a believer in change, but like many others, I struggle with sustaining it. I can go days, weeks, sometimes months, but I often relapse back to the point that it feels like I made no change it all. What is…
Sexual harassment in medicine, the Boy Scouts controversial breakdown of gender barriers, how to prevent mass shootings, and how a gap year in school helped a black woman. Welcome to TL;DR (Too Long, Didn’t Read) Tuesdays. I summarize and discuss two articles — one from a blogger, and from one a “traditional news” source. I also…
