Once Again, Texas Leads the Way

Dallas-Fort Worth Lifest...: "Here's a prescription your tyke doesn't get from a doctor every day -- or, probably, ever: 'Apply large paddle to bottom of child anytime he needs it.'

Courtney Capps, 27, of Burleson was flabbergasted when an emergency department physician at Huguley Memorial Medical Center wrote the dubious direction for her 5-year-old son earlier this year. She said the doctor also asked her son about his race, which seemed to have had nothing to do with an infection on his finger."