DoctorMama

There's been a lot of talk here and elsewhere about callous, mean or stupid doctors. An article in the Times today has a pretty good d...

HellBoy is starting to talk more, but his pronunciation stinks. The other day GoodCat wandered into the living room and HB started his usual...

Seems like I've been reading an awful lot of comments on other blogs lately in which the prevailing sentiment is that doctors are stupid...

They're here. November through January is resident interview season, and they appear like a flock of black-suited birds migrating for th...

I had to stay at work until 9:00 last night for my "leadership" course ("Goal Setting" and "Attitudes for Success...

There are patients I enjoy, and patients I enjoy less. Oh, who am I kidding, trying to be all PC. There are patients I can't stand. I ha...

This being our first year in our house, I wasn't sure how much candy we'd need for Halloween. So last week when I saw our neighbor f...

We flew across the country last week so that I could attend a conference and TrophyHusband could spend time with some college friends who ha...

I entered motherhood committed to the idea of breastfeeding, and fully prepared for how much it can, well, suck. I knew it would be difficul...

Mine was not the typical path to medical school. In my family, we weren't raised so much as allowed to grow up. What pressure there was,...

My sister-in-law has a son who is six months younger than HellBoy. He's also already two pounds heavier (we get his hand-me-downs). He...

TrophyHusband and I had The Talk the other night. The Talk about whether we want another child, and if so, where to get one. We agree that ...

Holy cow are things heating up over at the Leery Polyp . I didn't comment, partly because there are too many words there already, but pa...

So despite the stealth ibuprofen, AngelBaby did get a fever, and was banished from daycare. His illness has a domino effect: Our dinner w...

AngelBaby had his 15 month check-up this am, and we found that: He remains in the 5th percentile for weight He remains in the 10-25th ...