Alethea Allen, MD, MTS

Founder of Grace Point Pediatrics, recovering seminary grad, monastic wannabe. She/her.

[Alethea Allen, MD, MTS @AletheaAllen]

Maybe since our new bishop is an actual attorney our conference can stop paying so many insanely high and also somewhat mysterious legal fees. #VAUMC

[Alethea Allen, MD, MTS @AletheaAllen]

He scoped out the entire #LEGO store and chose The Fab 5 Loft. Forget Star Wars, this ten year old is all about style. #queereye #fab5 @ Disney Springs https://t.co/gDFgMHgkHu

[Alethea Allen, MD, MTS @AletheaAllen]

For whoever needs to hear this today:
Your brain’s lack of dopamine is not your fault.
Procrastinating isn’t a moral failure.
You aren’t lazy.
You don’t need to try harder.
#ADHD

[Alethea Allen, MD, MTS @AletheaAllen]

I showed my 3 year old patient this photo of me on a swinging bridge above crocodiles and he said, “Good God, Almighty!! And you didn’t even die!”
I love my job. That is all. #tweetiatrician

[Alethea Allen, MD, MTS @AletheaAllen]

@Max_is_lost @EloLaTiteNeko @VivreAvec_ Yes. Exactly this.

[Alethea Allen, MD, MTS @AletheaAllen]

Saw a new 5 yr old patient with undiagnosed ADHD. After 30 min. of him bouncing around the room, his grandma telling him to sit still, and me saying, “He’s fine. Let him play..,” he whispered to his grandma, “She isn’t an angry doctor grandma. It’s ok. She’s not angry.” I cried.

[Alethea Allen, MD, MTS @AletheaAllen]

@kimatt7 Of course!

[Alethea Allen, MD, MTS @AletheaAllen]

I was really proud of my teenage son for trying to learn coping skills for his ADHD….until he wrote a 500 word essay in MLA format with a works cited page, and CDC data asking for a “therapeutic listening device”……a.k.a. noise canceling AirPods. #ADHD

[Alethea Allen, MD, MTS @AletheaAllen]

I had a moment this weekend when I watched my 18 yr old daughter walk towards an interview with such poise and confidence that I couldn’t believe she was actually my child. That was a catch your breath, maybe grace is real kind of moment. Still in awe.

[Alethea Allen, MD, MTS @AletheaAllen]

Hey. Crying babies will have red tympanic membranes. This does not mean they have an ear infection. Learning how to examine a baby without making them cry is an actual clinical skill and also why “infected” ears look perfectly normal in my office the next day. Thanks and bye.

[Alethea Allen, MD, MTS @AletheaAllen]

How I feel when Omicron is suddenly everywhere and we’re still trying to explain Delta to patients. “I wasn’t ready! I wasn’t ready!”

[Alethea Allen, MD, MTS @AletheaAllen]

@WrayDaniel So probably parainfluenza virus. The struggle is real and germs are everywhere.

[Alethea Allen, MD, MTS @AletheaAllen]

This week I’ve diagnosed:
COVID-19
RSV
Flu A
Flu B
Human metapneumovirus
Rhinovirus
Parainfluenza virus
Adenovirus
All in infants under age 1.
Sometimes three viruses in one child at a time.
Love babies?
Get vaccinated
Wear a mask
Don’t touch a baby if it isn’t yours.

[Alethea Allen, MD, MTS @AletheaAllen]

Pediatrician problems: your adorable patients bring you holiday goodies only to realize when you get home that your family has eaten everything delicious and left you nothing. Nothing!

[Alethea Allen, MD, MTS @AletheaAllen]

@elisha_mccoy @onepeloton If you tell me what ride you want to do, I will do it with you. (Preferably with my boyfriend Matt Wilpers or my BFF Christine but Cody is also awesome.)

[Alethea Allen, MD, MTS @AletheaAllen]

@adhdmemetherapy @AskADHD

[Alethea Allen, MD, MTS @AletheaAllen]

@napermom_kiddoc Truth. COVID is the excuse for newborn parents to do what they should have been doing all along. Plus we are drowning in Flu A, RSV, rhino, parainfluenza, and human metapneumovirus around here. Drowning. Every day I’m like “You have an ear infection! You have an ear infection!…”

[Alethea Allen, MD, MTS @AletheaAllen]

I’m sorry to be a holiday Grinch, but if you have a newborn baby, this is not the year to spend Christmas with your 25 cousins and their 75 unvaccinated children. Stay home. Protect your baby. Spread germs and Christmas cheer next year.

[Alethea Allen, MD, MTS @AletheaAllen]

I am at the stage of pre-Christmas shopping where packages are arriving at my door that I completely forgot about ordering. #ADHD #WorkingMomProblems #COVIDExhausted