Perspectives… | celebrating multiple points of view

Most parents of multiples agree that each year with twins become exponentially easier. I can personally attest to that fact now that my twins are two years old.
I once met a mother of twins who was an anomaly. She told me that things only get harder with time. I wanted to ask her, “Why would [...]

There’s no question about it—caring for twins is hard work. In addition to the physical demands, there are unique challenges that you simply don’t encounter with singletons, like how to identify similar-looking twins, how to feed two hungry babies at the same time, and how to calm two crying babies at once.
That being said, there [...]

Faith and Hope were born at 33 weeks and both initially required care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Ironically Hope, the smaller twin that we worried about throughout the pregnancy, turned out to have no major problems. She stayed in the NICU mainly to learn to feed and to grow. Faith, on the [...]

No two pregnancies are alike. This is especially true for pregnancy with twins.
During my pregnancy with Faith and Hope, I experienced a number of pregnancy complications. I had vaginal bleeding and pregnancy-associated diabetes. In my third trimester, I was forced to go on bed rest due to a shortening cervix (a risk factor for preterm [...]

Throughout history, twins have always attracted a certain degree of attention and curiosity. Recently, high profile Hollywood mothers of multiples, like Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Lopez, have catapulted public interest in twins to a whole new level.
People often ask me what it’s like to be a mother to twins. In this five part series, I [...]

One of the beauties of being a physician is that not only does your world encompasses the clinical aspects of health, but also involves many other disciplines as well. Often people assume that a doctor’s influence ends at the clinic or hospital door, however that is far from the truth. Promoting health is a very [...]

This is a question that I’m often asked when talking to future physicians or people in general. Medicine has gone through some impressive, dynamic changes in the last ten to twenty years, even more since I started down this road. I truly believe that the next ten to twenty years will be even more incredible. [...]

When people have asked me what it takes to be a physician, I usually tell them that there are three things that every doctor must have. And no, being scared of blood is not a deal breaker. Three out of the six people who did their surgery rotation with me in medical school fainted at [...]

Every doctor has a story of how they ended up in medicine. Mine goes like this. My parents instilled two things that looking back now were probably the reason I was drawn to become a physician. From my father I inherited the love of problem solving. A lot of the clinical part of medicine depends [...]

First of all you might be wondering what a pediatric hospitalist does. Prior to about 10 years ago, when a child became ill enough to require hospital admission, their pediatrician would place them in a hospital and then manage their inpatient care accordingly. However, both the pressures of increasingly complex inpatient medicine as well as [...]