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Pediatrician answering your questions. 馃帣锔廇sk Doctor Amy Podcast

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Are you confused and frustrated each time you need to give your child fever or allergy medication, not knowing how much to give? I made an app, KidDose, that tells you the right dose by weight with 1 click: - Tylenol - Motrin/Advil - Benadryl - Zyrtec onelink.to/kiddose
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Kid has a fever? Here鈥檚 what you need to tell the pediatrician: 1. How many days? 2. Highest temperature? 3. What other symptoms are they having? These 3 points help you have a more productive conversation with the triage person or pediatrician.
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Perhaps the epitome of elite human performance is motherhood - growing then sustaining life. The most ordinary, extraordinary miracle. Happy #MothersDay to all the elite performers.
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So true. We need time to think deeply about patients and make sure we do it right, safely and effectively.
Christina Farr
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Digital health has gotten a lot of negative attention. We need to slow it down. Invest smart, not fast, double down on fundamentals. Growth at all costs was never going to work.
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Orchestras would never hire a musician without an audition, yet most surgeons are hired without real performance evaluation, because ORs used to be a closed off space. Time to change this. Starting with unedited videos of minimally invasive surgery.
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What surgeons can learn from professional musicians to improve their performance in the OR: 1. Deliberate practice Intentional, repetitive, mindful practice of skills until a form of automatism has been reached. 1/5
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It鈥檚 not about minimizing screen time. It鈥檚 about maximizing connection.
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The electronic medical record just reminded me to schedule my newborn patient for her COVID vaccine in 2037
COVID Vaccine During Pregnancy in 2021? | How a Pediatrician Thinks About the Risks & Benefits youtu.be/1UAmOnGdtdA

COVID Vaccine During Pregnancy in 2021? | How a Pediatrician Thinks About the Risks & Benefits

Pregnant and considering the COVID vaccines? At this stage in our u...

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I can count on one hand the things in pediatrics (and in life) where there is only one right way to do something.
A comprehensive list of people who send and receive faxes in 2021: 1. Healthcare people
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Cow's Milk Intolerance in Babies: Causes, Symptoms - Pediatrician Explai... youtu.be/Yh4Cn4BTrTk via @YouTube

How to Tell if Baby Has Cow Milk Intolerance & Allergy | What is...

Let's talk about exactly why some babies don't tolerate cow's milk ...

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Sometimes I google a generic product then head over to Instagram to see what the robot overlord has selected as the perfect version of it for me.
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It still takes a village to raise a healthy child. People鈥檚 physical and emotional needs have not changed. Only the village disappeared in the last few decades in our country. The good news is we can rebuild this.
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If it doesn鈥檛 make life more efficient, more connected, or more beautiful IRL, it鈥檚 not good technology.
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Too much knowledge signaling. Not nearly enough knowledge.
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Medical history taking by traditional healers: When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?
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Our health-care system costs so much because the system is not built to care about health.
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If you know someone in the LA area who is experienced in giving vaccines to kids of all ages and are interested in a side gig, please have them contact me.
#COVID19 Explained Part I: Why did the Coronavirus spread so fast? Why d... youtu.be/0WFPhQjYScg via @YouTube Pediatric specific topics to come. New video every day this week. #pandemic #FlattenTheCurve #healthcare

COVID-19 Explained Part 1: Why did the Coronavirus spread so fast?...

Dr. Amy Fan, board certified pediatrician and the founder of Kinder...

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