Letters from Maine
Letters from Maine
Is family reunification our goal?
Not every family is repairable, at least on a time schedule that is compatible with the emotional and health needs of the children.
Letters from Maine
The art of saying 'I don't know'
The art of saying “I don’t know” boils down to what you say after the “but” and how you say it. As long as you have offered a plan to find the...
Letters from Maine
A test for cannabis-caused impairment
The absence of a laboratory test that can determine when a person is impaired by marijuana has made life difficult for law enforcement officers...
Letters from Maine
Learning a growth mindset
Most smart children may be born that way, but there are always opportunities for improvement, and our patients and their parents need to believe...
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The limits of education
If the truth isn’t convincing the [vaccine] resistors, then the obvious choice is consequences.
Letters from Maine
The death of expertise
With the pandemic, a sense of urgency has thrust onto the world stage opinions that in the past might have been quietly held theories based on...
Letters from Maine
Tap of the brakes on gender-affirming care
It seems to me a thorough and sensitively done mental health evaluation might minimize the collateral damage from some gender-affirming care and...
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Perinatal research and the Tooth Fairy
Those little bits of enamel long-forgotten may hold the answers to a plethora of unanswered questions about those critical months surrounding the...
Letters from Maine
Time to attack hypoactivity in our children
Our sedentary lifestyles are shortening our lives and launching our children into adulthood burdened with a raft of health risks they could...
Letters from Maine
You’ve been uneasy about the mother’s boyfriend: This may be why
Recently, a professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University discovered a specific set of neurons in the mouse brain that...
Letters from Maine
Pandemic goal deficiency disorder
Articulating a national goal that covers both communities where the response to the pandemic has been less thoughtful and robust along with states...