By Karen Sheehan, MD Our country is so divisive right now it is hard to see how we will work through it. Every issue is “us” versus “them” with no middle ground of “we”. It often seems that we no … Read More
By: Anna Briker, MD Candidate, and Karen Sheehan, MD, MPH “Did you buckle your seatbelt?” This question is a common refrain for parents to their children, and rightly so. Motor vehicle crashes represent a major cause of death in children; in … Read More
Unfortunately, it is not uncommon when we turn on the news that we hear about another young person being killed. What is rarely reported, but just as deadly, is the number of young people dying from suicide. The Illinois Violent … Read More
Chicago has a long history of violence going back at least until the 1930’s with Al Capone and his cronies. Thus, in some ways, the data brief released today by the Illinois Violent Death Reporting System isn’t that surprising. Violence … Read More
The City of Chicago got another bit of bad news when an article authored by my colleagues at Northwestern University was recently published. In JAMA Pediatrics, Abram et al reported on their study, which looked at positive outcomes of delinquent … Read More
“Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die” may be a conflation of one or two bible verses, but seems to sum up the findings of this month’s Illinois Violent Death Reporting System (IVDRS) Data Brief “The Role of … Read More
We often think about the need to child proof a house once a baby begins to move — such as putting gates on stairs, locking cupboards and removing cleaning products from underneath the sink. But really we should start thinking … Read More
I think children follow their own interpretation of the theory of relativity. Now that my daughter is almost an adult, what she needs fits into space that is smaller than a discount airline’s carry on: a computer, a smart phone, … Read More
When I googled quotes about “home” I found literally thousands of them. Some quotes had a philosophical or literary bent, others were warm and fuzzy, and nearly all of the quotes instilled a sense of trust, belonging and unconditional love … Read More
At first glance, the Illinois Violent Death Reporting System data brief released this week has very little to do with pediatrics. The brief describes suicide trends at 3 points in time over 10 years in Chicago and reports that the … Read More