Eating Disorder Screening Tool

As I have said many times in the past, complete weight restoration is the conditio sine qua non of childhood eating disorder treatment -- if you do not get weight…

  Coming to terms with the unhealthy side of exercise as the parent of an eating disordered child One of the most challenging issues faced by all eating disorder providers…

To say, as adult physicians do, that lifetime mortality from anorexia nervosa is somewhere around ten percent of patients is important and true. It is also, however, an understatement of…

Settings and approaches to treatment The acute medical management of children with eating disorders can take place in several very different settings, depending on the severity of the illness and…

When the NYTimes prints a story, it tends to generate conversation, whether we live in New York, Florida, Texas, Utah or Oregon; such is its influence and reach. On March…

At Kartini Clinic we have long been aware of the problem of hypophosphatemia (low blood phosphorus) with refeeding. In past decades when nearly all of our patients came to us…

History is funny. When looking back over social mores and people’s thinking from decades ago, generations ago, even centuries ago, we often find ourselves puzzled. How could nearly everyone have…

Publishing a letter from a grateful parent might strike some as self-serving but I’m putting this one out there anyway because I believe that all of us, but especially our…

About food: potatoes This is the second installment of a series on common food ingredients; the first was about corn. At Kartini Clinic we spend our lives restoring the health…

On February 9 at 10:30 AM PST / 1:30 PM EST, Dr. Julie O'Toole, founder and Chief Medical Officer at Kartini Clinic for Children and Families in Portland, Oregon will…