Letters from Maine

• A Pediatrician Wonders About the Influence of an Unhappy Teacher When should you consider the teacher's role in a child's academic struggles?
  Medscape Pediatrics, July 06, 2021
• The Risk of Avoidance If we can't convince our vaccine-hesitant population to step forward for their shots, the US may slide back into dangerous instability. Let's see what the last year and a half has taught us.
  Medscape Pediatrics, May 06, 2021
• Tragic Consequences of Ignorance for Everyone A 19-month-old baby was found unresponsive in a crib at her day-care center. She was resuscitated by the daycare provider but is now blind, has seizures, and no longer walks or talks.
  Medscape Pediatrics, May 06, 2021
• Helping Parents and Children Deal With a Child's Limb Deformity My decision to accept the risks to reap the benefits of surgery is small potatoes compared with the decisions that the parents of a child born with a deformed lower extremity must face.
  Medscape Pediatrics, February 25, 2021
• What Are the Risks of Going Back to School? A few weeks ago I was asked by the head of our local parks and recreation department for my opinion on whether the town should open its summer recreation camps program.
  Medscape Pediatrics, June 29, 2020