Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • Special Article
  • Published:

PDA, a ringside view

Pediatric Research volume 93, page 1837 (2023)Cite this article

The harsh light shines on the luminaries in the ring

Fighting, arguing about you

“Echo it, no don’t!”

“Close it”

“Close it always”

“Close it sometimes”

“(Almost) Never close it”

Waving RCTs – their clever acronyms

Easier to remember than the trial design

Medications wrestling one another

The king, indomethacin now exiled,

Dethroned by ibuprofen, paracetamol

And the shiny new toys

Devices to plug, close, seal you off

They may avoid cutting open a tiny chest

But are they really needed?

Ringside are the clinicians (there I am!)

Our faces swinging with each new twist

As if watching Serena and Venus

In the back of the room, in the dark seats, are the parents

When the winner is declared (2030? 2040? Later?)

And the answers are known

And Rocky is handed the championship belt

We can turn on all the lights for the parents

The harsh light shines on the luminaries in the ring

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on Springer Link
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Nemours Children’s Health System, Department of Pediatrics, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, 6535 Nemours Parkway, Orlando, FL, 32827, USA

    Kanekal Suresh Gautham

Authors
  1. Kanekal Suresh Gautham
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Kanekal Suresh Gautham.

Rights and permissions

Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law.

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Gautham, K.S. PDA, a ringside view. Pediatr Res 93, 1837 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41390-022-02346-8

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41390-022-02346-8

Search

Advanced search

Quick links