***This article includes graphic details*** As a medical resident, I saw a 4-year-old girl with a large tear in her vagina that required surgery to put it back together. I couldn’t image what had happened. The family said she fell on the top of a plunger. The examination (and common sense) said otherwise. The mother’s…
Last year, more than 40,000 cases of abuse and neglect were reported in Kentucky and Indiana, leaving hundreds of innocent kids with permanent physical and emotional damage. Dozens of them didn’t even survive. Child abuse is everyone’s concern — and it’s 100 percent preventable. Click on the slideshow below for tips on how you can…
I’ve been a practicing pediatrician for 13 years. I feel like I’ve seen it all — from the normal bumps and scrapes to some of the rarest syndromes and diseases on this planet. But there’s one thing that always shocks and upsets me as a physician and as a parent: child abuse. An abused child…
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