New This Week at Dr. Robin's School Hi Reader, I've been thinking about sex ed lately — specifically about how almost everyone got a terrible version of it, whether it was at home, school, a place of worship, or somewhere else. Not bad in the same way. Bad in different, very specific, very recognizable ways. I got The Horror Director — terrifying STI photos and the strong implication that any physical contact with another human would cause us to melt into green slime. Who did you get? Hit...
12 days ago • 5 min read
Dr. Robin's Inner Circle Members Only Newsletter A Note from Dr. Robin Hi Reader, During residency, family medicine doctors are required to do emergency medicine rotations. And my favorite place to do mine was a small rural hospital in Colorado...one doctor on duty at a time, handling whatever walked through the door. Rural emergency departments are often run by family physicians, not ER specialists. And the types of problems we saw were very different than you'd see in the city. There was...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Dr. Robin's Inner Circle Members Only Newsletter A Note from Dr. Robin Hi Reader, During my residency I got to spend a month on a public health rotation. And I loved every minute of it. I went into family medicine because I like thinking about systems, not just individuals. Nobody gets sick alone. Diseases cluster. Conditions follow patterns. There are reasons why certain things show up in certain communities at certain times. And figuring that out is a public health problem. But the thing I...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Dr. Robin's Neuro-Circle A Monthly Neuro-Newsletter A Note from Dr. Robin Hi there! January can be a rocky transition for a lot of families! I've learned that the most important thing I can do is give myself and my family a lot of grace. There are so many articles and videos promising "the" solution, but if it were that easy, everyone would be doing it! Go ahead and try some ideas that might make your return to a regular schedule a little easier. But the most important thing you can do is to...
4 months ago • 5 min read
New This Week at Dr. Robin's School Hi there! When emergencies happen, kids don’t need to panic—they need a plan. This month, we’re breaking preparedness into small, doable steps. Start by building your Safety Team with this week’s short video and downloadable worksheet. 🎬 The Feature Lab This week's video focuses on the first step to creating an emergency plan for your family. There will also be a playlist available starting next week so you can work through all the pages at once! 📥 The...
4 months ago • 2 min read
Dr. Robin's Inner Circle Members Only Newsletter A Note from Dr. Robin Hi there! When I started medical school, I thought I was perfectly healthy. Then a professor noticed I had a goiter (an enlarged thyroid) and another noticed I was short of breath and suggested I get checked for asthma. I entered medical school believing I was well and left with several chronic conditions that were finally being managed. For the first time, I knew what it felt like to feel well. But I also understood what...
7 months ago • 2 min read