A Musing Pediatrician

L. Gregory Lawton, MD, is a pediatrician with Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Primary Care, HighPoint, Chalfont, Pennsylvania. He attended Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia on a scholarship from the US Air Force and completed his pediatric residency at a teaching affiliate of the University of California, Davis at Travis Air Force Base, California.

From 2000 to 2003, he served as the pediatrician at Hanscom AFB in Massachusetts, where he attained the rank of Major.

He exchanged the polyester Air Force uniform for cotton fiber in 2003 when he moved to the Philadelphia suburbs to work for the CHOP. He sees patients in the CHOP Care Network.

In 2015, he became board certified in clinical informatics. This means he spends more time than he should trying to make it easier for physicians and nurses to interact more effectively with each other and their patients through informational devices (also known as the electronic health record, or EHR). In 2018, he was named associate EHR medical director of the Primary Care Network at CHOP.

Back to School: In Praise of the Routine Summer is wonderful, but many welcome the return to the well-worn routines of fall. Helping families establish those routines is the unique purview of pediatrics.
Medscape Pediatrics, September 26, 2018
Pediatrician Burnout: Similar, yet Different Burnout in pediatricians has some of the same root causes as in all types of physician. But some causes are unique to the challenges and joys of caring for children.
Medscape Pediatrics, July 20, 2018
Pediatrics by the Numbers: Putting Our Time Where It Works Best Are you asking the right questions? Providing the right advice? Greg Lawton, MD, discusses the issues and hazards that provide the biggest risk to kids and how to use our time wisely to mitigate them.
Medscape Pediatrics, June 04, 2018
A Musing on Interpreters in the Pediatric Exam Room Interpreters can become a critical part of the interaction with a family.
Medscape Pediatrics, March 21, 2018
Can Teenagers Solve Our Nation's Most Intractable Problem? Can impetuous, unruly, infuriating, passionate, inspiring teenagers prevail where adults have failed?
Medscape Pediatrics, February 23, 2018
SOAP to EHR to Scribe: What's Next? From handwritten notes to the loved and hated EHR. Will scribes change the game?
Medscape Pediatrics, February 23, 2018
Pediatrics and Its Daily Spiels Matching the dialogue to the situation is part of the daily challenge--and joy--of pediatrics.
Medscape Pediatrics, December 20, 2017
Mass Shootings vs Bridge Accidents: Which Get Action? On the 5th anniversary of Sandy Hook, pediatrician Greg Lawton asks: What if mass shootings were bridge accidents? Would we as a nation respond differently?
Medscape Pediatrics, December 14, 2017
Suicide Risk in Teens: Look Everywhere Suicide is the second most common cause of death in teens. And we have to do better at identifying at-risk kids.
Medscape Pediatrics, November 21, 2017
Drug Use in Parents: Why We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat A pediatrician is galvanized by a poignant interview with the children of drug-addicted parents.
Medscape Pediatrics, October 27, 2017
The Fine Art of Pediatrics When everything is changing, are the main things, such as kids and parents, staying the same?
Medscape Pediatrics, October 03, 2017

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