This is PediCast.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello, everyone, and welcome.

Once again to Pediacast.

It's a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike, coming to you from the campus of nationwide children's hospital.

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It's episode 399 for March 7, 2018.

We're calling this one Parenting with Science.

I want to welcome everyone to the program.

So we are right on the doorstep of episode number 400. Parenting with Science. I want to welcome everyone to the program.

So we are right on the doorstep of episode number 400.

Been doing this for a while.

And this week we're going to talk about a topic that is near and dear to my heart,

Parenting with Science.

And really, this notion is why I started PDACAST back in 2006, because as a pediatrician, I find science important.

And, of course, doctors use science every day.

You know, we start with our core base of knowledge, what we learn in medical school and residency training.

We add in our past clinical experience. So, patients and conditions we've come across, you know, during our training and since our training.

And finally, we consider new discoveries.

You know, we evaluate the strength of the findings.

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