Eating Disorder Screening Tool

Happy Holidays and Holy Days to all our Kartini Clinic friends. This blog is a quote from one of my "most admired" pediatricians and another doctor named Joshua Sparrow on…

Water Loading Before Appointments In my previous blog I discussed falsifying weight by wearing weights. This time I would like to discuss a much more common circumstance in which a…

I remember the first time a patient of ours was "caught" wearing weights. I was examining her with her mother and a young resident pediatrician in the room. I noticed…

I got off the phone with a college student health doctor last week with the sinking feeling that I get when I have not been able to convey the rationale…

By Julie K. O'Toole MD, MPH I have decided occasionally to write about topics that may be of more interest to practicing physicians and other providers confronted with difficult or…

This morning I was reading a mother's cry for help on Laura Collins' blog "Around the Dinner Table." The scared mother spoke of her 10 year old daughter's struggle and…

  Reporting on a new article I just reviewed an article which should help us answer the question: how much will my young daughter with anorexia nervosa need to weigh…

Most of you will have heard me say that weight restoration is the cornerstone of treatment in childhood anorexia nervosa, without which you get nothing. It makes sense, you say?…

I have been asked many times to explain why I went into the treatment of pediatric eating disorders. Did I have an eating disorder myself? Did I have a family…

Why research matters We are all busy at the Kartini Clinic, from the front office folks who answer calls, take messages, deal with upset or even irate parents, to the…