Have you ever wished that a doctor could come to your home to check on your baby? I did! I was in my pediatric residency when I had my oldest, Grace. There were a handful of times during her first months of life that I asked my pediatrician friend, Laurel, to come and see Grace in our home—it was the middle of winter and she was never sick enough to need to be seen in the peds clinic (and risk being exposed to cold and flu viruses!) but I was concerned enough about her that I

This fall I had the privilege of working with a small group of first year medical students at Case Western Reserve University as a “case-based inquiry facilitator.” For two hours every Mon-Weds-Fri morning I coached my students as they read through and analyzed real medical cases. Through my role as a facilitator I helped them to tease out the basic science information and medical facts that they needed to learn about from each case. There are four things which really stand o