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Goat Milk vs. Cow Milk Formula Media Library
Nutrition Podcast

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…

Jan 31, 2026 5 min
The Hidden Costs of Insurance-Based Pediatrics Direct Primary Care
Podcast Wellness

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…

Feb 12, 2026 2 min
Direct Primary Care vs Insurance: A Clearer Model 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…

Feb 5, 2026 1 min
Understanding Purple Crying Newborns
Ophthalmology

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…

Jan 29, 2026 2 min
When the Pool Beckons, Vigilance Must Follow 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…

Feb 14, 2025 2 min
Hands Before Hearts: Getting to Know Antenatal Hand Expression Media Library
Nutrition

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…

Jan 29, 2025 5 min
Breaking the Cycle: How Rising Star Pediatrics Puts Children Before Insurance Codes 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…

Feb 12, 2024 3 min
The Quiet Crisis in Our Schools—and the Doctors Who Can Fix It 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…

Feb 9, 2024 4 min
Conjunctivitis (Pink Eye) 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…

Jan 29, 2023 1 min
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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…

Nov 22, 2022 5 min
General Pediatric Care for Traveling Families in West Palm Beach, Florida 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…

Jan 19, 2022 5 min

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