Dr. Gwenn’s Huffington Post Blog
Last week’s suicide of 11 year old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover is a wake-up call to parents and schools everywhere that bullying is not being handled correctly, swiftly or firmly enough to protect the true victims. Carl’s mother told the news [...]
At the health club today, Natasha Richardson’s ski accident earlier this week was the talk of the pool and locker room. From wondering if reports of her brain death were true to expressing sympathy for her family, people were clearly [...]
What do you see when you look at this picture? Is the glass half empty or half full? These days, it may be flip-flopping…our current times do make it a challenge to see the brighter side of life at times [...]
We all want our kids to someday end up on healthy, loving relationships. Hopefully, that will be the situation. But, what if it’s not? What if one of our children ends up in a situation like Rihanna found herself in [...]
In the health care world, we tend to have a few different conditions we treat: 1. Emergencies that require treatments where we see near immediate results to ward off further problems or to save a life. Heart attacks, head injuries, [...]
When I first heard that Salma Hayek gave breast milk to an African baby, I was initially ok with it. There are many babies in need around the world and I didn’t see how Salma giving her milk to a [...]
Did you ever learn about Achilles in school, or see the movie? We all know the reader’s digest version of the famous myth: mortal baby made immortal by his mom by being dipped into the river Styx, except for his [...]
We all develop causes and issues that become important to us. During my pediatric training, childhood cancer became a cause for me that I started to care very deeply about and has remained important throughout the many twists and turns [...]
If you haven’t seen ABC’s Private Practice, I encourage you to do so. In addition to being entertaining, the show covers sensitive medical topics very well. This week’s episode addressed the birth of a baby with a condition called diaphragmatic [...]
It’s been a year since I injured my back. When it first happened, I innocently thought the story would have begun and ended in short order – those sorts of things typically do. My situation, however, became a bit complicated [...]
