Midwife, not a doctor.

Sometimes I want to go full Gregory House and give them pamphlets to funeral homes for their baby when they refuse vitamin K. It's a vitamin. Have your opinions about vaccines, whatever, I give up, but vitamin K is literally *just a vitamin*. You eat it in your vegetables (presumably, you eat those). Babies DO NOT have enough of it and in 1 in 250 infants that don't get supplemental vitamin K it can cause FATAL BRAIN BLEEDS.

If you'd like to be the parent of one of those 1 in 250 babies, be my guest—you can always just make another one, right? Baby coffins are so cute too!

As a pediatrician: you need to parent your children. You think they have too much screen time? Take the screen away. Your kid has belly aches? Take the takis away. Your kid won’t eat dinner and just junk? STOP BUYING JUNK. 


The number of times a day I have to tell parents it’s OK to tell their kids “no” is mind boggling. .

The Rod of Iron Ministries. It's a schismatic offshoot of the Unification Church (aka the Moonie church) and was founded by two of Sun Myung Moon's kids, Sean and Justin. They literally worship the AR-15 rifle, believing it represents the "rod of iron" mentioned in the Book of Revelation that Jesus would use to assert his authority during end times. Justin is also the founder of Khar Arms, a handgun manufacturing company that also owns Magnum Research (the Desert Eagle .50 AE handgun makers) and Auto-Ordnance Corporation, which made the original Tommy Gun used by Great Depression era gangsters. They make a semi-auto clone these days.