At Quinte Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine we believe that healthy kids energize our community, and we’re passionate about working with that community to make it a great place for our kids and teens. Each academic year, we work with local area high schools and take on a co-op student for work placement at our offices. This year we’ve been working with Kristen, who took the time to write a blog post about her experiences so far. Take a look! I’m from Moira Secondary School and I come to Quinte Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine one day a week on job placement[Read more...]
This past weekend, Sara, our director of social media and communications, took a road trip to Toronto to attend PodCamp 2012 – an “un-conference” focusing on all things social media. Aside from attending an array of informative and inspiring sessions, she also participated in a panel for one entitled, “Sex, Drugs, Dying and Living: How social networks help with tricky and taboo health topics”. It was a great experience full of engaging discussion and thought-provoking idea-sharing. Sara, along with fellow panelists, Colleen Young, Jackie Hickey and Kathy Kastner spent the hour talking about the powerful role that social media has[Read more...]
In the world of pediatrics, each day is an adventure. The human body is complex and wonderful. Many medical problems are based on something easily identified. Ear infections and appendicitis come to mind. But there is more than enough complexity to the body to make the obvious, well, less obvious. An ear infection may be only a surface finding of something more complicated. Appendicitis may be so much more, or less, than appendicitis. At Quinte Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, we are often asked whether teething in infants and toddlers may cause fever, rash, diarrhea or other symptoms that look like[Read more...]
Snow days, freezing rain and school bus cancellations are tricky days at a pediatric clinic. On the one hand, illness waits for no one, and when you’re sick, prompt care is definitely the gold standard. However, when driving is icy or snowy, packing the kids or teen into the car and venturing out on the roads is not always a wise choice, particularly when the roads are too treacherous for the school buses. Watching, waiting, and keeping your child comfortable at home until the roads clear is often more sensible when your child awakens with new symptoms of an illness.[Read more...]
Medicine, at its core, is a profession intended to prevent, diagnose, treat and rehabilitate illness. The knowledge, aptitude, expertise, and technology to achieve these goals are relatively concrete and simply defined. Shouldn’t health care be fairly straightforward then? When you or your child get sick, a visit to the doctor should get you fixed up and back on track. But so often, things are much more complicated. Wheeziness may be a virus, bacteria, smoke or pets, asthma, a foreign body in the airway. Your visit may be to your doctor, someone on-call for his or her practice, another doctor, a[Read more...]
