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...Somehow the stars aligned, and I closed my eyes and saw an incredibly clear picture of my future. After two and a half years of being most definitely not pre-med, I have decided to be a doctor, to foster the resilience of at-risk kids as a developmental pediatrician in an urban hospital. It felt amazing and so very decisive...
...thought back to my earlier proclamation about my future as a developmental pediatrician, and then I looked around at those who would gain valuable experience in consulting and I-banking this summer. The conference helped me realize that my vision of myself as a pediatrician in an urban hospital was part of my continued commitment to society. But I also learned that this principle can be (and needs to be) applied within virtually any field...
...time slot. But they will need both white and minority viewers to thrive and create the kind of cross-cultural exchange City aims at. In the second episode, a white resident panics when an African-American girl shows up with a gray efflorescence on her legs. A black pediatrician shows him the miracle cure: Vaseline. The girl has ash--a mundane dry-skin condition--and tells him, "It's a black thing." You may remember the second part of that catchphrase: "You wouldn't understand." That makes a good T shirt but not good Nielsens (or race relations). For City...
Snyder was not so sure. "I'm an optimist. Why would evolution have been parsimonious in depriving the human brain of the power of self-healing? I was a pediatrician before I became a neuroscientist. As a pediatrician, I was impressed by how much plasticity there really must be in the human brain. Pediatricians know that damage to the infant brain doesn't have the same outcome as damage to the adult brain. If a newborn has a stroke, even in the cortex [an area important to higher intellectual functions], he or she may sustain it and develop quite normally...
...before abandoning "co-sleeping," which is common among several minority groups and increasingly encouraged by pediatricians, parents should note that the study has been heavily criticized for its methodology. It?s not clear, for instance, how many children died from accidental suffocation by a parent who was drunk or drugged. William Sears, a California pediatrician who recommends the practice, told the New York Times that he warns parents using alcohol or drugs not to bring their children to bed. Obese parents should also be particularly cautious, he says...