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Remembering Kevin
Kevin died more than 30 years ago. I have not forgotten the night he died nor the manner of his death. He was not my patient but everyone in Peds knew him. A little seven-year-old boy with leukaemia....
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A mother-friendly workplace
In his masterpiece, Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind, the Israelite historian, Yuval Noah Harari, writes about myths or “imagined realities.” Imagined realities are all those things that we cannot...
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The blue house on the hill
The view from where I sit on the porch is of the Atlantic sea pouring tirelessly onto the Barbados coast. The sound is of pounding waves; wave after wave after wave, until you feel the seashore cannot...
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Memories to hold on to
First meetings can set a trend for the rest of your life. I met up with Barbados in 1978. I had just been appointed Lecturer in Child Health and my bosses (there were many) wanted me to attend the...
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A morning walk
Alarm did not go off as he had set it, at five. After the night’s shenanigans, inside and outside the house, he was lucky to be up at 5.20 am. Fun and games and Kadooment fete down the road all night....
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Exhausted with these politicians
I think it was a former PM who once referred to T&T as “a little black speck” somewhere in the Atlantic? A speck of little importance, despite having a transient advantage in petroleum and gas, now...
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Life in T&T
The day after elections and whatever has happened, we have to get on with life in T&T, so, in the spirit of togetherness and with their permission I attach these two pieces, written by special...
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Custom is a hell of a thing
Custom and habit are a hell of a thing. Last year a mother of three proudly told me that her children ate chicken three or four times a week. “Roast or boiled,” I queried. “No, KFC!” I looked at her in...
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Health issues
Well, we back to what passes for normal life, elections over, our so-called Westminster system of governance starting off with some misgivings: the Minister of Finance is an engineer, another Minister...
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It’s worm time again!
It’s that time of the year again. No, not hurricanes, budget day, Papal speeches or the September song. No man, serious stuff, the stuff of legends, the sort of thing that makes mothers salivate and...
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Worming does not help
Last week’s worming article attracted a question from a reader. Mr Jonathan Pierre initially had asked when he should take a “worm-out.” I replied never and he then quite correctly said, “Off the top...
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Chickenpox or channapox?
Since school began there seems to be an outbreak of chickenpox or varicella zoster as it’s called by doctors who, like politicians, love to impress people with big words.Chickenpox is a mild...
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How much ‘screen time’ is too much?
How much total “screen time” a day is healthy for children? The answer is fascinating if unexpected.Simply put, under the age of two years: none. From two to five years: one hour. Over five: two...
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To have and to hold
I remember well the shock and awe I felt when I first heard a Professor of Immunology say at a lecture up at UWI one evening many years ago, that babies should be immediately given to their mothers as...
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All bacteria are not bad
Most people think that bacteria or microbes are “bad,” that “bacteria are nasty, bacteria make us sick. We must get rid of them.” So, unwittingly, mothers refuse to put their babies on the floor,...
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‘Lighting up’ captivates us even more
We are, in certain things, so fortunate in these two little islands. Three of the world’s great religions, Hindu, Islam and Christian, live here, side by side, in almost perfect harmony. And we, its...
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‘H1N1 flu just another kind of flu’
There is far too much confusion in the country about this H1N1 flu (“swine flu”) situation and the fault lies with the Ministry of Health officials who are not taking it on or cannot take it on or are...
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Really bad news about antibiotics
One of the great medical issues of our times, unlike what most people, including medical men, think, is not H1N1 or the set of loonies killing people in the Middle East, but antibiotic resistance....
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Pathology meets Paediatrics
Last week a medical doctor did what too few doctors do in T&T, he came out of his crease and made some pretty pungent comments about a case he was involved in. Dr Valerie Alexandrov, the forensic...
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The Voice
This Saturday Frank Sinatra will be 100 years old. I say so even though he died in 1998. To millions of people his body may have passed on but his voice, the Voice of the Chairman of the Board, the...
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