Levels of Care
At Kartini Clinic our evolution to the current levels of care we offer has been a long one. In the first days of the clinic we offered only inpatient (hospital…
At Kartini Clinic our evolution to the current levels of care we offer has been a long one. In the first days of the clinic we offered only inpatient (hospital…
Recently I was making our daily rounds at Randall Children’s Hospital and received a lesson from a very young patient of ours. I say it over and over: “your patients…
I’m not sure how many of you know it, but Kartini Clinic is looking forward to a major expansion. We have signed the lease in a new building which will…
I was recently asked by a professional skeptic, a parent & friend of mine, “why can’t parents re-feed their own children at home without the stamp of approval of the…
When I was a girl, my brothers and sister and I had the usual kid-like responses to the world around us. One of them was innocent astonishment at those less…
I just returned from Tampa, Florida and the 2014 IAEDP conference of professionals involved in the treatment of eating disorders. I was there to talk about the very young child…
Thinking about obesity: calmly, rationally and outside the box When I was a rotating intern at Sacred Heart Medical Center, long ago, I attended rounds with the then head of…
At Kartini Clinic we have been embarking on something we call “weight restoration 2.0”. In other words we are trying to move beyond mere weight restoration (as critical as that…
In previous blogs I have spoken to the importance of bench science -- the kind done in the lab to decode the “basic” science that underlies human physiology -- to…
Morgan and I just returned from the parent-founded and parent-lead F.E.A.S.T. conference, familiar to many of you as an online resource for parents whose children are struggling with an eating…