A sixteen-year-old came into my emergency department breathing four times a minute. Found unresponsive by a friend. His lips had the gray tinge I’ve learned to recognize and never gotten used to. We ...

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There is a tradition of parents writing an obligatory college drop off letter to your freshman college student. I have read a few examples, and some of them are beautiful, poignant. They are to offer ...

Stephen M. Sandelich, MD, is an assistant professor of emergency medicine and pediatrics at Penn State College of Medicine, where his research focuses on substance use care for adolescents. He ...

I was at the UPS counter taping a box shut when my friend’s husband walked in carrying a box of his own. We both knew why the other was there. Our kids were away at school, and we were mailing them ...

I’ve been through eighteen years of college drop off in my role as a psychiatrist at Boston University Student Health Services. Don’t knock on your student’s door at 7 a.m. and ask for a campus tour.

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