Attending Children
Subtitle: A Doctor's Education
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: April 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781589010543
Subjects: Pediatricians; Study and teaching (Internship); Medical - Physicians; Children with Special Needs; Biography / Autobiography; Physician and patient; Medical; Pediatrics; Mohrmann, Margaret E.,; Medical ethics; Paediatric medicine; Ethics; 1948-; Biography
First sentence: THIS IS A BOOK of stories from my career as a pediatrician in academic medical centers.
Description: In a fast-paced, complicated, and ever more dangerous world it is easy to become self-absorbed and consumed with our own problems. There is one place, however, where we put our self-centered concerns aside, and our deep, common humanity is profoundly touched. That place is where sick children dwell. It is no less difficultand perhaps even more difficult in many waysfor physicians who have chosen to attend to the health and well-being of gravely ill or dying children. Margaret Mohrmann has devoted most of her professional life to them, and in Attending Children she shares the remarkable education those children and their families have given her. Her narratives are both painful and hopeful, tragic and funny, full of remarkable characters and sometimes bizarre families.