Paige Kalika is a board-certified pediatric neurologist at the University of Miami. She is certified in headache medicine and has a special interest in neurodiversity and neurodivergence. She can be reached on Bluesky.
Paige Kalika is a board-certified pediatric neurologist at the University of Miami. She is certified in headache medicine and has a special interest in neurodiversity and neurodivergence. She can be reached on Bluesky.
How do I talk to my kid about ADHD?
You’re not alone. Your child’s pediatrician should be your first stop in this journey. As a neurospicy pediatric neurologist with an ADHD child, this is how I discuss this topic with my patients and their families.
The first thing I ask my patients is, “Are you trying harder?” Because that’s what we keep telling them to do—try harder! Every single child nods eagerly …
Medicine is a language.
Medicine is many things: an art, a science, a vocation, and a calling. A good way to make a difference, a hard way to make a living. But medicine is also a language.
We learn it the way we learn any language: from the ground up. We start with the fundamentals, the vocabulary of medicine—anatomy, biochemistry, physiology—and work our way up to the sentence level: pharmacology, immunology, neuroscience. …
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