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A doctor’s plea
So it appears that the answer to last week’s question, “Are parents still being asked to leave their ill children alone in the ICU in T&T?” is yes.We were informed that, “Parents are allowed to...
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Old fogies
Having written critically about the harm the SEA exam is doing to our children and the lack of a family-oriented paediatric service in the PICU at EWMSC, it was gratifying to have two positive...
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Poor, suffering humanity
I’ve been reading up a bit about the advice parents used to be given in the past by paediatricians and came across a fascinating booklet. “Caring for Infants, Then and Now: 1935 to the Present” by the...
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Brain drain
In 1976 a Trinidadian in the USA, with an eye on returning home and working for the government, decided to apply to do a Masters in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). He was accepted and...
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Frontiers
Frontiers are artificial man-made constructs and what man makes another can destroy, improve or ignore. Many frontiers were fabricated out of nowhere during colonial days and in the Middle East and...
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Give me brown sugarnot
Now, don’t call me racist, but “white foods” are bad for you. I’ve wanted to use that phrase for a long while but held back because of the racism that we all experience in T&T. Not that it’s...
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Simple
Simplification is a hell of a thing. If you simplify too much, people feel you are a jerk. If you don’t simplify, grow a beard, wear sandals and granny glasses and bathe every other day, you are...
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Hidden Disabilities
“Every gang leader I have spoken to had a learning disability” Archbishop Rev Jason Gordon. Newspaper article, Friday 18 May 2018There has been no formal study done on the incidence of hidden...
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MOE disability
For the past ten years, around 18,000 children annually have been facing the Secondary Entrance Assessment examinations.For the past ten years, around 10% have been failing the SEA.Failing a school...
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Complementary food
The late, great Frank Sinatra once said, “It’s the people what make you and it’s the people what break you.”Sometimes they could real break you hard. Sometimes one wonders why one keeps trying and...
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