Rob and Matt talk Concussions, Sports injuries and so much more. Slime!, Dr. Edison: Serial Killer, The Champagne Disaster, ImPACT Overrated?, Concussion blood tests, Spondylolysis Storks, Syphilis Surging, USELESS outside sports PEs, , Golden Ticket Concussions, Elementary School Wellness Centers without parents – Really???, Matt’s ankle rupture, Downs Athletes: NO neck x-rays – YES United sports, Shoulder Contortionists, AND Plyometrics!

 Up Next:  Should Kids Play Tackle Football?

PP3 032 POTSpourri & Doc McStuffins

Matt and Rob cover highlights from Hot Topics in Pediatrics 2018 Disney World. All Things POTS, Concierge Doc McStuffins, Heavy Metal Baby Cereal, FREE medical school tuition – Hallelujah! , ZOOM, Bert LOVES Ernie, Even a little breast milk helps, Epidermolysis Bullosa, Never Trust Yellow Asian Babies, do what hurts the most, Yes, Real men Eat Luna Bars, and Hospitals take on Big Pharma – Finally!

Coming Next: Should youth play tackle football? PLUS Sports injuries and Concussions

Rob and Matt wrap up Scoliosis discussing treatments: braces vs surgery vs nothing, The BillBlanket Scandal – NOT a Harry Potter Mystery, Ridiculous new mom lactation consult rationing, PA & WV are choking DE, toddler digital dependence, chiropractic medicine –  buyer beware, Ban Bedroom Screens overnight, Kloppy, PReP approved for teens, Gettysburg Feline Battles, ScoliScores useless, Quasimodo OK but King Richard III NOT a hunchback – blame the Bard, Dowager Humps, Schroth Scoliosis therapy, Poor Joan Cusack, Judy Bloom’s Deenie, Harrington Rods RIP , spinal fusion miracles, beware left-sided scoliosis, AND the good fight against recreational pot,

Next Up: Hot Topics Highlights Including Hot Contoversies – Should kids play Tackle Football? & First Line ADHD treatment – Pill vs Talk.

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Matt and Rob stroll down the twisty scoliosis road. Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis,  EOS rules! , Cobb Angles, United Kingdom snobby docs, Don’t Dis Grandma, Pistachio Gelato & Quebec Maple Creams, Jerry Lewis Walks On, VACTERL anomalies, the Dupont Institute’s Sharded Glass Walls, Hypermobility Beighton scores & the Gowers sign, idiopathic pathetic idiots, School-Based Scoliosis Screening, , Marfan Abe and Flo, Vegan Rob, Risser versus Sanders, Curves versus Rotations, Rob’s paper gowns vs  Matt’s pediatric laundromat.

Next Up: Scoliosis II and King Richard III – Where we will discuss scoliosis treatments ranging from major surgery to absolutely doing nothing at all. (plus the BiliBlanket Scandal!)

Rob and Matt’s Special Summer Sun Extravaganza. Sunscreen Scandals and the FDA, Melanoma Rising & ABCD mole checks, UVA vs UVB and SPF, Matt’s Sad Sunburn Saga, “Healthy Tans” and Coco Chanel, Delaware/Jersey Shore Helmetless Sunburned Youth, Cancer Beds, Montreal Protocol saves the Ozone, Solar Harvest Noon, The Monkees over U2, Barking the Squirrel, RNC’s Here Comes the Sun,  Red Vet Pet, Cheri the Coppertone Girl, PMLE & Phytophotodermatitis & Lime Disease, XP Moon Children, Count Chocula – Boo Berry – Franken Berry, 47 Dollar Sunscreeen  AND Preaching Consent and Respect to teen and college boys.

Next up:   Scoliosis

Matt and Rob cover summertime rashes. Prickly heat, Poison Ivy & Uma Thurman, and Hot Tub Folliculitis. Goat yoga, Boudleaux & Matilda Bryant, Swimmers Itch – Snails and Nematocysts, & Mainline Pseudomonas.

Up Next:  Sunburns and Photodermatoses

Special Double Bonus Episode! The boys move downward to finish this PenisPalooza. Glowing Scrotal Christmas Ornaments, , Bozo is dead!, Cryptorchidism, the SCARY testicle Story, Virgil Livers and testicular fractures, YES they retract & shrink, Teen Addictions:Juuling & Fortnite , New Jersey Bag o’ Worms, Jocelyn Elders vs Clinton revisited,  Orchiodometer Necklace,  The Tooth Fairy, Wonderama/Al Alberts/Captain Noah & Sally Starr, The Bozos of Boston, Bone age YES – routine vitamin D and insulin levels NO,  Mumps is BACK, Pearly Papules of the Penis and Pediatric Erectile Dysfunction.

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Coming up:  Summer Rashes and Scoliosis.      See y’all at Disney –  Hot Topics in Pediatrics  July 26-28

Rob and Matt tackle all things Penis in Pediatrics. Circumcisions A-to-Z: methods, advantages, complications, and controversies. Pediatricians should know PrEP!, Macaroons and Matzah, Privates/WeeWees and the Tinkler, The Icelandic Penis Museum & Circumcision Ban, Care of the uncircumcised penis plus Balanoposthitis & Paraphimosis. The SNL Royal Deluxe Bris, Dante!, Matt’s Jersey Condom Models AND Penis Hair Tourniquets.

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Next few up: Penis II & Bozo, Summer Rashes,  and Scoliosis

Matt and Rob cover everything Pets & Pediatrics. Dogs (and sometimes Cats) help our Mind, Body, and Soul. We also sing. A lot. Emotional Support Pets, Direwolves, Patti Page, Cat Scratch Fever, Cat and Dog bites, Rabies and Zoonoses, Best Breeds for kids, Cartoon Animals & Theme Songs, South Jersey cat tossing, Labrador Retrievers vs English Springer Spaniels, AND The Red Baron.

Arrivederci and Zay Gezunt

Rob and Matt cover everything Influenza: the historic 2018 Flu epidemic, why Flu shots for kids. Flu testing controversies, Human Head transplants, Tamiflu pros and cons, Flu complications and deaths, Ted Williams, Our Eyewitness Accounts of EAGLES Super Bowl & Parade, Merrill Reese & Jason Kelce, AND we welcome our first sponsor –  Triage 4 Pediatrics.

Coming up next:  Privates and Prep

PP2 024 The Influenza Epidemic References