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Racist Violence and Broken Social Trust
Hello Friends. My mind and my heart have been reeling this last week. As a society, we have a lot of racial and class injustice to contend with. Access to care disparities, financial disparities, housing disparities, infection risk disparities, health disparities, food disparities and more, all being amplified by global crisis. Our vulnerable and minority…
Should I be worried about MIS-C?
Unless you’re well on your way to Mars, you have been hearing a lot of frightening news reports about Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, or MIS-C. And like most parents, you probably have a lot of questions, as do we. Currently, there’s much more that we don’t know than what we do know. The good…
We Are Here For You; COVID-19 Edition
I took a few minutes while I was on call to share some important information. Apparently my heart is overflowing with gratitude because I have many, many thanks I want to express… our staff and patients are the best! I also talk about some basic but important steps to manage our mental health during a…
Your Pandemic Mission
If you’ve had a check-up or a telehealth visit with me in the past 6 weeks, there is a very good chance that you have been subjected to these questions: How are you connecting to others? Do you have a regular bedtime? Are you eating meals three times a day? Are you sitting down to…
COVID-19 Haikus
While we are working hard to keep up with the constantly evolving pandemic and provide safe, quality care, we are also trying to find ways to manage our own well-being. We explored our creative sides by writing haikus about our experiences with COVID-19. I do not consider myself a very creative person, but I did…
What the COVID-19 Response looks like at EPPC
East Portland Pediatrics looks and functions a bit differently these days. We are sure there are more adaptations to come, but we wanted to give you all a glimpse into how things are working here in response to COVID-19. The first thing you’ll notice is a completely empty waiting room. In order to maximize social…
Coronavirus and COVID-19
Our Federal agencies are telling us we can expect more cases of coronavirus and here in Portland where there are three presumptive cases already, we have to assume that means us. There’s a lot of information inundating our public and online spaces; with 6 deaths in our neighboring state of Washington, it’s normal to feel…
Yup, Your Kids ARE Always Sick
If you are a first time parent, that first illness your child experiences is momentous. Their every breath rattles the mucus in their nose and the back of their throat and your anxiety builds as you listen to them sleep through the monitor–whether you can hear their breathing or if you can’t. Is it the…
School Exclusion Day is Approaching!
This week marks the deadline for schools to report each student’s immunization status to the county health department. Children that are under-immunized will have letters mailed home on February 5th. On February 19th, any child who is not up-to-date on their vaccinations and does not have an exemption on file will be excluded from school.…
