Equipoise Healthcare

03/14/2026

NEVER SAY NEVER

Parents, you've been asking for years if Dr. Stauffer will work you up for the medical disorder you almost certainly passed down to the kid that she already diagnosed, and she's finally saying yes.

Dr. Stauffer used to say that she would "never" see adults as patients. But it started with a 19-year-old. Then a 20-year-old. Next thing you know, our oldest patient just turned 30, and we had to choose a new upper age limit.

While we don't provide primary care beyond the pediatric age range (which ends somewhere between 18-25 years old), Dr. Stauffer was pleasantly surprised to find that these adult patients generally don't bite and will let a person examine their ears anytime without a struggle, so she is expanding her specialty care to include young adults up to age 35. These specialty services include: hematology (blood disorders), oncology (cancer), palliative care, and rare/complex disease, such as medical mysteries, primary immunodeficiency syndromes, genetic disorders, adult survivors of childhood cancer, connective tissue disorders, and more.

Note: If you are an adult, you will still need a family medicine or internal medicine primary care home. This expansion is for specialty services, not primary care!

Is this because Dr. Stauffer is bored and needs more work? No! It's because she can't stand watching you all suffer when she has the ability to do something about it. To that point, however, please be KIND and CONSIDERATE and PAY YOUR BILLS and SHOW UP and just generally be a good patient and remember that our staff are people too. Remember that Dr. Stauffer is a mortal human who is trying her best and can get busy, tired, distracted, or sick and who also has a rare, complex disease and a family, and also there's only one of her. In other words: be kind, be responsible, and let's be humans together. We heal through community, mutual partnership, and relationship, not through consumerism or termagancy.

*Check with your insurance plan to find out whether or not you need a referral.*

01/22/2026

Inclement Weather!
We will close early at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, January 22, due to the storm coming.
Stay safe and warm!

01/19/2026

We are CLOSED on Monday Jan 19 in honor Martin Luther King, Jr.

12/23/2025

We are CLOSED on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We will re-open the day after Christmas, Friday Dec. 26. Happy Holidays!

12/08/2025

Who We Follow

Dr. Beachgem is a pediatric emergency physician who is as entertaining as she is informative. Follow her on social media if you want to see emergency medicine behind the scenes while learning at the same time.


https://www.facebook.com/drbeachgem10/

Pediatric ER doc. Mom of 4 kids(&cats). Tiktok . PO Box 57, St.Pete FL 33731.

12/07/2025

We are excited to announce that Megan Bergman will begin her new role as Physician Associate (PA) on December 15 with her own schedule! This means we will have double the appointment slots that we currently have! Most of you have already met Megan around the office as she has been in a training role the last three months. Starting December 15, you can book an appointment with her.

12/06/2025

Links We Love

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has a website devoted to parents and kids. Check them out when you're looking for information about medical topics!

HealthyChildren.org - Powered by pediatricians. Trusted by parents.

11/12/2025

Equipoise Healthcare will begin to offer in-person classes for a variety of common medical and parenting topics for $25 per person. Classes will begin in January and will be held at our office. Group size will be limited to 15 participants per class. We welcome any adults who want to learn, as well as teens who are old enough to begin learning about their own health. You don't have to be a patient here in order to sign up, however, RSVP will be required!

Since it's hard to focus with little kids running around, you may be better served by having little ones stay home with another adult. However, we are a pediatric clinic literally built for kids. So if you need to bring your little one, we can handle that.

Leave a comment with which of the following topics you'd like to attend:

Newborns
Early childhood development
Fever
Asthma
Allergies
Eczema
Living as an immunocompromised person
Sleep problems in kids
Constipation
Connective tissue disorders
Vaccines
Upper respiratory infections
Nausea and vomiting
Ear infections
Iron
Autism
ADHD
______________?

10/25/2025

Some patients have asked for a recommendation of a good quality multi-vitamin for their kids. Having researched this extensively, we are sad to say that we can no longer recommend Animal Parade vitamins, which was previously our top choice, due to a new report that found excessive contaminants with heavy metals. We'll keep searching.

Click on the link to read for yourself:

   Published March 30, 2025 — Sunday A Quick Note from Tamara Rubin: As anticipated (given this has been consistent with nearly all of the children’s vitamin products we have tested), this product tested positive for Lead, Arsenic, and Cadmium. To see the full lab report with the specific leve...

10/02/2025

Happy New Year to all who celebrate Rosh Hashanah!

10/01/2025

Links We Love
Dr. Becky, author of "Good Inside," is renowned for her insightful guidance to lovingly resolve tricky parenting situations and tough childhood moments. Her website requires a subscription, but her book only has to be purchased once and can be read over and over.
https://www.goodinside.com/about

Who is Dr. Becky? Learn about the Clinical Psychologist and #1 NYT bestselling author behind Good Inside, and her groundbreaking approach to raising resilient kids.

10/01/2025

Does your child have a connective tissue disorder? Come meet new friends who know what it's like when your bones suddenly pop out of place without warning, along with other interesting problems. We'll be hosting on Thursday, January 29, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. right here in our own rainbow lobby!