Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Sylvia Owusu-Ansah is a pediatrician who emergently takes care of pediatric patients and would like to be a philanthropist when she grows up.
I have spent a lot of time as a pediatrician in the emergency department and a brief period of time rotating through the local poison… Read More »E-Cigarettes’ Liquid Nicotine Poses a Poisoning Risk to Children
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents over the last 30… Read More »Locally Combating the Childhood Obesity Epidemic
I recently took care of a young infant who was found to have eaten a single-use detergent sac, otherwise known as a laundry pod. The… Read More »Is Convenience Harming Our Children?
Imagine you are a pediatrician working in an emergency department when a young female patient who was recently diagnosed as bipolar is brought in by… Read More »Pediatric Mental Illness Crisis: Barriers to Pediatric Mental Health Services in Our Current EMS System