During a recent well child check up, I asked a quiet 6 year old about school. With a gentle prompt from her mom, she talked to me about how she's been trying to learn to speak up for other kids. Intrigued, I offered that this is something grown ups need to practice as...
Health care is always delivered by a team. The more complicated the clinical condition-- the more education or training involved in our care-- the larger the team. Even when we are alone in the room with our patient, there are people outside the room who are arranging...
As a child growing up in Northeast Ohio, going to Cleveland was a really big deal. It meant driving along the Shoreway which was the one East-West highway with 6 lanes, 3 in each direction. My mother hated the merging traffic and the dire threat of getting lost...
At a recent meeting of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine, Donna Thomson gave a keynote address, reflecting on her own experience as a caregiver for her son who is now a young adult. Speaking before several hundred health care...
Today, we mark two years since our beloved Jim passed away. Our Plews-Ogan family, including Rowan and baby Phoebe, Erin and Hal, and Will and Monika, are gathering for the weekend as we will every year. This year, we’re in Minneapolis. The time together has given us...