Oct 6, 2026 · 14 min · 11 segments
This month, we begin a new series on **Vitamin K Deficiency** with host Paul Wirkus, MD, FAAP and two experts, Kristan Scott, MD, MSHP and Sarah Coggins, MD, MSCE joining us to explore why newborns…
Kristan ScottGuest
Sarah CogginsGuestIt's interesting, and before we started th- this morning we were talking a little bit about the general challenges with public health in the current era.
I'm old enough that I would have missed probably vitamin K prophylaxis, and I remember lining up at the high school gym to take my oral polio vaccine on a sugar cube, and the fact that my parents were thrilled about that.
And I think that it's so easy to forget the advances in public health that have, have made our world a safer place.
Kristen, anything else that we should be thinking about how vitamin K works before we move forward to how we give it?
I think one of the insights that really ha- struck me the most is that I think we represent this as something that's only important because of the trauma of childbirth and that sort of thing, when people say, "Well, I'm not gonna circumcise my son, so he doesn't need any vitamin K." But it's the little things, and it's the unpredictable little things that I think we're trying to keep babies safe from.
It's interesting, and before we started th- this morning we were talking a little bit about the general challenges with public health in the current era.
I'm old enough that I would have missed probably vitamin K prophylaxis, and I remember lining up at the high school gym to take my oral polio vaccine on a sugar cube, and the fact that my parents were thrilled about that.
And I think that it's so easy to forget the advances in public health that have, have made our world a safer place.
Kristen, anything else that we should be thinking about how vitamin K works before we move forward to how we give it?
I think one of the insights that really ha- struck me the most is that I think we represent this as something that's only important because of the trauma of childbirth and that sort of thing, when people say, "Well, I'm not gonna circumcise my son, so he doesn't need any vitamin K." But it's the little things, and it's the unpredictable little things that I think we're trying to keep babies safe from.
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