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...and new babies. I love to teach, and new parents are eager learners because they mostly don't know anything. If I could have limited my practice to parents and young children, I would probably still be working, but electronic charting, COVID, the demand for telemedicine and teenagers did me in after 45 years.

If you can find a used copy of Dr. Mom by Dr. Marianne Neifert, get one for her. It's been around for ages, and is one of the best books about child health I know of. Dr. Neifert was a pediatrician at the U of Colorado and the mother of 5 children. When I read it, I agreed with pretty much everything in it, and I would tell parents it was rather like having a paperback copy of me at home. Very practical and down to earth, and has a section specifically on when to worry and when not to.