Natasha Babar

Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. Editor’s Note: The following article contains depictions of child abuse. He was nine years old, and he had been “acting strange” all day. This is about all that the parents could tell me. When I examined him, his face told a different story. He lay supine on the bed, a blood-tinged pillow propping up his small head, his chin sunk into the poorly-fitted cervical collar wrapped around his neck.

Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. There are many stock phrases about the field of medicine: medicine is hierarchical, medical school is like drinking from a firehose, see-one-do-one-teach-one, practice personalized and evidence-based medicine. Well-circumscribed roles in the medical field are another pillar of the profession, and for a good reason.

Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. I recently prescribed methotrexate, a reliable disease modifying anti-rheumatic drug, to a 7-year-old girl with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) who had failed anti-inflammatory medications and intra-articular steroid injections.