Subject
Death; Counseling; Death & Dying; Death Studies; Gerontology/Ageing; Grief & Trauma Counseling - Adult; Grief & Trauma Counseling - Children & Adolescents; Health & Medical Anthropology; Medical Sociology; Palliative Care Nursing; Pastoral Counseling; Social Work with the Elderly; Sociology of Religion; Specialist Care
Description
Through a focus on one child's extended stay in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, I raise four general questions about pediatric medicine: How should physicians communicate with parents of very sick children? How should physicians involve parents of very sick children in treatment decisions? How should care be coordinated when a child is being treated by different medical teams with rotating personnel? Should the guidelines for making judgments of medical futility and discontinuation of treatment differ when the patient is a child rather than an adult?
2005