Mississippi Pediatric Associates

07/08/2025

We recently celebrated our 12th year in business! Thank you for supporting us. Our goal is to be the medical home for your children -- a comprehensive medical facility that is responsive to your needs. As always, we are happy to see you the same day. Thank you for trusting us!

FYI, below is a snapshot of some of the prevalent respiratory illnesses that are currently circulating, as reported by Biofire.

05/12/2025

One of those early mornings that makes you thankful to live on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. It was my first time to stand-up paddleboard. My only goal was not falling in. Mission accomplished.

03/25/2025

Hey vote for us! Vote every day, in fact. You can find me under "Health and Beauty"!😀

We live, shop, eat, and play in the coastal Mississippi area and we wouldn’t have it any other way. In celebration of our great communities, the Sun Herald presents Best of Coastal Mississippi. This contest is truly designed to engage the community in cel

03/10/2025

Note that for the past week rhinovirus rates were almost twice the COMBINED rates for flu and covid for this sample set.

03/04/2025

Happy Mardi Gras!

Yep, we are open.

02/27/2025

02/20/2025

After almost 30 years, I finally have a copy of my master’s thesis from Vanderbilt University School of Engineering!

Kim got it for me as a Christmas present and the folks at Vanderbilt printing were kind enough to work with her to make it happen!

When I finished writing the thesis in December 1995, I had to provide a copy for the school as well as a copy for my advisor. I think that the cost for me to have one for myself was $35. This seemed like a huge sum of money to us at the time! I was a graduate student and Kim worked at a department store (the old Castner Knot at Green Hills Mall) in the china department! We lived in a cool duplex in Nashville on Woodmont Boulevard. Our rent was $450 per month! The good old days.

Now the thesis deals with Langmuir Blodgett films and Rutherford backscattering spectrometry, and bonding between molecules described by Dewar… all stuff I haven’t thought of in years in any way besides a distant memory. I would love to say it all came back to me when I read the thesis, but I found myself wanting to edit it and add in more background explanation!

I hope you get a kick out of the pictures…I tried to dress in the proper colors -- I really did have a black blazer, but I know that the tie is not exactly gold. Close though.

Thanks to all the folks at Vanderbilt University printing services who made it happen. I read the acknowledgement page of the thesis and looked up everyone who helped contribute to the document way back when. I was happy to see that two of the professors who helped me are still associated with Vanderbilt and that my lab mate who also studied under Dr. Fort has gone on to have a nice career in chemical engineering. I am thankful that I had the privilege of visiting with my thesis advisor, Dr. Tomlinson Fort, in 2010 at his home in Franklin just two years before his passing.

01/27/2025

Flu cases are now exceeding rhinovirus according to regional information from Biofire.

01/24/2025

If you have recently had a newborn, you are familiar with the in-hospital testing regarding jaundice. Often the jaundice level needs to be monitored even after the baby is discharged home.
In 2022, the American Academy of Pediatrics Issued new practice guidelines for management of hyperbilirubinemia (aka "jaundice"), updating guidelines in place since 2004.

We have the expertise and the equipment in office to test for and if need be treat jaundice in newborns. In some cases this may mean that the baby does not need to have a blood draw at the hospital. At the time of the office visit, we can estimate bilirubin using our transcutaneous meter, which does not require a blood draw. If needed, we can even treat jaundice with phototherapy that can be done at home.
To learn more about jaundice in newborns, you can read more here:

https://www.mspediatricassociates.com/dr-wurms-blog/what-is-jaundice

01/23/2025

Every quarter for a four-year block, I answer online questions as part of my maintenance of certification to be a board-certified pediatrician. You get four "drop grades" during the 16-test stint. I just completed year three of four and received notice that my scores were high enough (no drop grades needed) that I don't have to take any tests for the next year! Hurray!

https://www.abp.org/verification-certification

01/23/2025

We are open! Please drive safely and allow yourself extra time. There are still patches of ice on the road.

01/22/2025

Two days snowed in...time for a lengthy post about food and friendship...

Last weekend was my second annual hunting trip with my old childhood friend Gilbert Liu. Gil and I grew up in Clinton together, and Gil is now a pediatrician with Ohio State. Neither Gil nor I grew up hunting, but thanks to my son Cameron's interest, I picked it up as an adult.

I visited Gil last summer and he treated me to great meals at Lupo on Arlington and Cameron Mitchell Restaurants and other fun establishments in Columbus, Ohio. We even happened upon a concert of the Sugarhill Gang and Grandmaster Flash.

So I wanted to be sure to give Gilbert just as good of a culinary experience as he had given me. Due to weather, he showed up one day early, giving us a chance to go to VK Noodle House for lunch where we ran into Johnathon Maisano, who gave us a rundown of his latest small batch offering of K.LUKE, so we promptly procured a bottle. That evening, Chase Sekul was good enough to deliver us a bag of 100 oysters from Eagle Point Oyster Company. The next day we loaded up with the K.Luke and the oysters and headed towards the hunting grounds in West Alabama, but on the way out of town, we stopped by Fayard's Poboys Ocean Springs and I got a Nonna Randazzo's Bakery King cake. Heading north we stopped at Petra Cafe Greek & Mediterranean Hattiesburg where we ordered the Petra Mezza and Turkish coffee. We received outstanding service and hospitality as usual. Petra is now open until 2 AM in case you want to make a late-night run from the Coast.

After meeting up with my sons in the morning in West Greene, Alabama and a successful hunt, we took the deer to the processor and still had time to get to the Alabama Rib Shack in Gainesville, Alabama in time for lunch. You may have seen this joint featured on “True South” of the SEC network. To say it is off the beaten path may be an understatement. But it is worth it! We even got a nice visit to our table from proprietor Jamie Lee. He gave us a complementary pork steak, which I must say it was excellent. I got a pulled pork sandwich that I will put it against anyone’s. But the thing that is unique is the side dishes. I got collard greens and potato salad. I never even knew I liked collard greens but now I’m thinking about those collard greens.

From the Alabama Rib Shack, we took off to Starkville for the Mississippi State versus Kentucky game. We met my brother, Brad in Starkville and Ubered over to Humphrey Coliseum. The Hump was a sight to behold, but alas, the Bulldogs came up short. We then had a little gathering of old friends and a post-game party on Greensboro Street. That’s when we got to really enjoy the K.luke as well as the Eagle Point Oysters and King Cake and even broke out some ci**rs we had purchased at Coast Ci**rs and Lounge in Ocean Springs. I found out that my son Caleb is a proficient oyster shucker, something that he attributes to a rivalry with Harrison Clark. We stayed up ‘till midnight (really late for us).

We got back to the Mississippi Coast on Monday and Gil and I went to Brady's Steaks and Seafood in Pascagoula for lunch. We got an order of fried crab claws as an appetizer. Phenomenal. We got a seafood platter with blackened triple tail and fried gulf shrimp. Also terrific. We met up with Kim that evening and dined at Indian Delight Ocean Springs. They no longer have to ask our order there. Garlic naan, and butter chicken. Gilbert flew out of Gulfport at five the next morning.

We visited with many friends and neighbors along the way and I want to thank you all for showing Gilbert such hospitality!