There are a lot of worthwhile charities in this world, many of them founded by successful business entrepreneurs or their heirs. This blog is about one such charity that has…
Depictions of nurses and of the relationship between nurses and doctors have been the subject of many films and books and stories. Doctors are usually portrayed as leading and demanding,…
This week’s blog covers a topic - menstruation in female patients - which I have written about before, but, given its critical importance to our female patients and their parents,…
I’m sure all specialties have their frustrations, but here is a major one of mine: patients who come to Kartini Clinic needing -- indeed deserving -- help but at the…
Inspired to think outside my usual box by Dr. Eric Topol, author of Creative Destruction of Medicine this morning, I began to ask myself: how can I help parents who…
Aaargh! Although dieting has been shown repeatedly to be destructive, counter-productive and useless in most settings (i.e. you re-gain everything you lose and then some…), it simply will not die…
You’ve heard it everywhere: your friends, your doctor, the New York Times, your personal trainer, virtually anyone who talks to you about health for more than five minutes will give…
With the publication of results for models of family-based home treatments, the treatment of children with eating disorders has changed a lot in the past five or six years, or…
Cook, My Darling Daughter! is the title of a cookbook from the 1950’s I found in a secondhand bookstore and gave my eldest daughter as a young adult. She had…
In an article recently in the New York Times, author Harriet Brown reviews a subject that was hotly debated at the London International Conference for Eating Disorders by Glenn Waller,…
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