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    • Food allergies have doubled among children from 2000 to 2018 according to CDC data, and have likely risen further since.

    • Women are more likely to report food allergies than men, especially in middle age.

    • About a third of people who report having food allergies have not been professionally diagnosed.

    • Most childhood food allergies fade in adulthood, except for shellfish allergies which are more common in adults.

    • Low-income families report higher rates of food allergies than high-income families.

    • Black Americans report higher rates of food allergies than white Americans except for wheat allergy.

    • Babies with eczema are more likely to develop food allergies, with severity of eczema correlating to likelihood.

    • Dust mites and shellfish share proteins, so dust mite allergies may lead to shellfish allergies.

    • Elimination of parasites like hookworms may have caused immune systems to over-focus on harmless allergens.

    • Early guidelines to avoid peanuts for young children may have exacerbated the allergy epidemic







  • Yeah for sure. The clinic staff can make a huge difference and it’s not always the physicians administrative responsibility to ensure that the clinic runs on time. They can influence that, but do you know how challenging it can be to replace physician assistants and/or nurses? They’re in very high demand.

    Agree with a previous comment that some docs have a god complex and don’t care about other people’s time.

    Overall it would be great if the world aligned with the time slots I have scheduled for activities and appointments, but it’s not always as easy as it appears in semi-complex environments.


  • Think about it. If the clinic staff are slow to room the patient, the physician likely tries to account for that. Additionally, your doc may have been rounding on folks (checking in on other patients) in the morning - e.g., say they did a surgery the day before, it’s often best practice to drop in to make sure people are recovering well.

    All of this adds complexity to an MDs schedule. Not to say that timeliness doesn’t matter or that your time isn’t important, but it’s not always a matter of someone being late - it could be the result of patients not being roomed on time for the last 2 years, so your doc shows up at 8:15 because the clinic staff don’t normally have the first patient roomed by 8 am.

    Source: wife is an obgyn