Faculty Bibliography

Saturday morning, the swelling around the eye looked worse, and he went to the emergency room, where an ophthalmologist diagnosed periorbital cellulitis. Cellulitis means a skin infection, and periorbital cellulitis is an infection of the skin around the eye. If the infection moves past the septum, into the orbital fat or the extraocular muscles that move the eye, it becomes a medical emergency, an orbital cellulitis, also called a septal cellulitis. We don't know exactly why it didn't respond to those first few days of oral antibiotics -- whether it was a drug-resistant bug, or whether it was just hard to reach because it had already taken advantage of that initial conjunctivitis, that whack in the eye with a basketball, to penetrate beyond the skin around the eye and threaten the eye itself

Klass discusses learning to cope with her mother's constant advice on parenting, which often makes her feel inadequate. As a pediatrician, she frequently meets mothers who feel unsure about their parenting skills as a result of disagreements over parenting with their own mothers

Klass stresses the importance of well-child checkups in addressing several concerns children face in school and at home, ranging from physical growth to school safety. Asking questions and inviting kids to pose their own and offering some help and encouragement are vital to figure out what's going right and wrong in a child's life

A short story is presented