Why I am a fan of Leora Pinhas

She's a psychiatric director for the eating disorders program at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. At the recent Canadian Pediatric Society Conference, Dr. Pinhas said two things that endeared her to me. First, she compared childhood eating disorders to cancer: "We have this thing that [they're] not really serious. But one in 10 will die. We need to act like it's a serious illness." Thank you, Dr. Pinhas.* And thank you even more for going on to put the question of eating disor