by Ann Beach | Dec 21, 2025 | Medicine
In December, the questions parents ask in the hospital are different. Instead of “Will my child be OK?”, we pediatric hospitalists hear: “We have plane tickets to go skiing for Christmas. Will he be well by then?” “She’ll be home for Christmas, right? We’ve never been...
by Ann Beach | Dec 12, 2025 | Medicine
In the spirit of Christmas, I’ll ask- was Santa Claus a redhead? Lore and traditions link him to red-haired figures like Sinterklaas and St. Nicholas. Modern interpretations like the classic holiday movie, Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town (1970), suggest Santa...
by Ann Beach | Nov 28, 2025 | Medicine
Happy Black Friday! We seem to have divided ourselves into two groups: those who are stretched out on the couch eating leftover turkey sandwiches, and those who are up at the crack of dawn hitting the malls for the best shopping deals of the year. Either way, there...
by Ann Beach | Nov 14, 2025 | Medicine
We’ve always heard that dogs have a much better sense of smell than us humans do. After all, there are convict-sniffing bloodhounds, bomb-sniffing dogs, drug-sniffing dogs, even cancer-sniffing dogs. Scientists have trained canines to sniff out lung, breast, ovarian,...
by Ann Beach | Nov 1, 2025 | Medicine
You’re getting one last Halloween post, because, of course, we haven’t talked about bats! Bats are the second largest order of mammals after rodents, and the only mammal capable of true flight. There are 1,500 species of bats, and they range in size from a 5-inch...
