Helping Your Child with Social Problems

Helping you solve your EMC problems

Helping your baby with torticollis.

Torticollis is another name for “twisted neck.” It sounds like “tōr’ti-kol’is” when you say it out loud. Sometimes babies are born with their necks twisted more to one side than the other. Other times this can happen after birth. In either case, the neck muscle on one side is tighter or shorter than usual. (It is not a bone problem. Your baby’s bones are normal.) We don’t really know for sure w...

Helping physicians with alcohol problems.

A public health item in CMAJ pointed out that although the precise prevalence of problems with alcohol and other drugs among physicians is unknown, it is probably similar to that in the general population. Single and colleagues’ estimate of 9% was quoted. This estimate applies to current drinkers who have experienced any of a list of specific problems at least once in the past year; these indiv...

Helping your patients to help themselves.

Helping Your Students Develop Critical Thinking Skills

Teachers strive to help students like Forrest, Ida, and Eric develop stronger thinking skills, and we’ll return to their conversation later in this paper. Better thinking and practical problem solving skills are promised in higher education mission statements, course syllabi, and lists of desired student learning outcomes. There are many ways to talk about thinking skills. Terms such as critica...