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Did You Know...
..That you can purchase lidocaine cream over the counter? Apply this to a kid's arm or leg prior to vaccinations, IV starts, or blood draws to numb the pain. Simply apply a similar amount as you would use for toothpaste on a toothbrush. Put the cream on the area where the kid is going to have a needle. Cover with a bandage. Go to your doctor's office. When it's time for the needle, remove the bandage and clean the cream off. Voila! The kiddo will hardly feel it. 💉

Links We Love

The Child Mind Institute is a parent-friendly resource for all things mental health in kids. This is a reliable resource for support and information, and they offer mental health treatment as well.

Check it out!

Child Mind Institute | Transforming Children's Lives. The Child Mind Institute is an independent nonprofit dedicated to transforming the lives of children struggling with mental health and learning disorders.

NEVER SAY NEVER

Parents, you've been asking for years if Dr. Stauffer will work you up for the medical disorder you almost certainly passed down to the kid that she already diagnosed, and she's finally saying yes.

Dr. Stauffer used to say that she would "never" see adults as patients. But it started with a 19-year-old. Then a 20-year-old. Next thing you know, our oldest patient just turned 30, and we had to choose a new upper age limit.

While we don't provide primary care beyond the pediatric age range (which ends somewhere between 18-25 years old), Dr. Stauffer was pleasantly surprised to find that these adult patients generally don't bite and will let a person examine their ears anytime without a struggle, so she is expanding her specialty care to include young adults up to age 35. These specialty services include: hematology (blood disorders), oncology (cancer), palliative care, and rare/complex disease, such as medical mysteries, primary immunodeficiency syndromes, genetic disorders, adult survivors of childhood cancer, connective tissue disorders, and more.

Note: If you are an adult, you will still need a family medicine or internal medicine primary care home. This expansion is for specialty services, not primary care!

Is this because Dr. Stauffer is bored and needs more work? No! It's because she can't stand watching you all suffer when she has the ability to do something about it. To that point, however, please be KIND and CONSIDERATE and PAY YOUR BILLS and SHOW UP and just generally be a good patient and remember that our staff are people too. Remember that Dr. Stauffer is a mortal human who is trying her best and can get busy, tired, distracted, or sick and who also has a rare, complex disease and a family, and also there's only one of her. In other words: be kind, be responsible, and let's be humans together. We heal through community, mutual partnership, and relationship, not through consumerism or termagancy.

*Check with your insurance plan to find out whether or not you need a referral.*

We are CLOSED on Monday Jan 19 in honor Martin Luther King, Jr.

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We are CLOSED on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We will re-open the day after Christmas, Friday Dec. 26. Happy Holidays!

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Who We Follow

Dr. Beachgem is a pediatric emergency physician who is as entertaining as she is informative. Follow her on social media if you want to see emergency medicine behind the scenes while learning at the same time.


https://www.facebook.com/drbeachgem10/

Dr.Beachgem10 Pediatric ER doc. Mom of 4 kids(&cats). Tiktok . PO Box 57, St.Pete FL 33731.