If you know how to raise a polite teenage boy please tell me how!! These are some of my favourite patients to see. Kind, polite, well spoken teenage boys who
Not so scary after all
The majority of children don’t like coming to hospital, seeing doctors or having procedures done. There are things about these experiences that seem to stick, in a bad way. We
Parents say the darndest things
“So what brings you in to Emergency?” “My daughter has a rash” I thoroughly examine every where… “I can’t see a rash at the moment, can you tell me where
Ellen DeGeneres eat your heart out
“Be kind to one another” is by far my favourite slogan ever but I think someone somewhere has already used that?? For months now I have been thinking of a motto,
Fountain of truth
In infants with fever and vomiting we always like to check for a urine infection. Now catching a urine to test it is probably the most annoying thing I ask
The kid’s got a point..
One of my favourite things about working with children is that they can be so matter of fact and much smarter than what we give them credit for. One conversation
Dads in delivery rooms
The funniest comment I’ve heard in a delivery room: “Wowsers look at the knackers on my son. That’s my boy!” The most awkward comment I’ve heard in a delivery room: