Raising Healthy Children
Starts With Knowing Why
Evidence-based pediatric knowledge, plain-language health guides, and the thinking behind the care — written by a board-certified pediatrician with 38,000+ hours of training.
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Media Library
Goat Milk vs. Cow Milk Formula
A Pediatrician, a Sister in Paris, and the Science We Leaned On During the height of COVID, when the world felt fragile…
Direct Primary Care
The Hidden Costs of Insurance-Based Pediatrics
Systems reveal their philosophy through their design. Concealment prioritizes control. Transparency prioritizes trust. When valuables are hidden in furniture, we assume danger…
Direct Primary Care
Direct Primary Care vs Insurance: A Clearer Model
The flickering stair and stick figures are not moving. Your brain is. High-contrast edges, shifting gradients, tiny eye movements called saccades. The…
Newborns
Understanding Purple Crying
Crying is a normal and important part of your baby’s development. Some babies, however, go through a specific phase of increased crying…
Safety
When the Pool Beckons, Vigilance Must Follow
There is something about water that calls to children. It is vast but knowable, dangerous but inviting—a thing to be mastered, to…
Media Library
Hands Before Hearts: Getting to Know Antenatal Hand Expression
I spend my clinic days watching parents make space in their lives for a person they have not yet met. Cribs get…
Wellness
Breaking the Cycle: How Rising Star Pediatrics Puts Children Before Insurance Codes
There is a quiet tragedy in how industrialized medicine today treats children—not as full human beings with stories and struggles, but as…
Organizational Pediatrics
The Quiet Crisis in Our Schools—and the Doctors Who Can Fix It
There is a quiet war being waged in the hallways of our schools. Not the kind waged with fists or words, but…
Ophthalmology
Conjunctivitis (Pink Eye)
The other night, a mother reached out to me over video. Her child’s eye had suddenly turned red and swollen. There was…
Comprehensive Health Assessments at Rising Star Pediatrics
At Rising Star Pediatrics, we believe in the weight of a child’s story—how their health, their growth, their very breath, is intertwined…
Wellness
General Pediatric Care for Traveling Families in West Palm Beach, Florida
Wherever You Go, Your Child’s Health Should Follow The sun drapes itself over West Palm Beach like a golden quilt, the air…
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