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Have you been surprised and impressed by a child who says after a visit, “Thank you, Doctor [Howard]”? While it may seem antiquated to teach such manners to children these days, there are several important benefits to this education.
Manners serve important functions in benefiting a person’s group with cohesiveness and the individuals themselves with acceptance in the group. The use of manners instantly suggests a more trustworthy person....

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read “thoughts of being better off dead” on your next patient’s PHQ-9 screen results and break into a sweat. After eliciting the teen’s realistic suicide plan and intent you send him to the ED with his parent for crisis mental health evaluation. When...

You probably think you know how to talk with a child about death. But somehow talking about a parent’s mental illness may seem more difficult.
Even medical professionals, as most people, can find themselves feeling more judgmental or uneasy talking about mental illness than about physical problems....

All pediatricians are relieved that the rates of children smoking cigarettes have dropped steadily since 2011. This decline seems to be associated with education on the dangers of cigarettes and fewer parents smoking. Perhaps less modeling of cigarette...