This is our child : how parents experience the medical world
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This is our child : how parents experience the medical world
（Oxford paperbacks）
Oxford University Press, 1991
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Today's parents expect to have a healthy baby and to provide a safe and happy future for their children. But when a child has a serious illness, parents find the situation hard to accept and cope with. The whole family is deeply affected. They find themselves in alien and traumatic situations where medical personnel, their machinery, and their medications seem to take centre stage. Everyone is under stress; death and suffering in children are hard for anyone to come to terms with; and it is often hard for families to find practical and sympathetic help. Health professionals may avoid facing their own emotions by hiding behind their clinical roles, and some family members and friends may do the same. This collection of accounts by parents and teenagers gives a very personal insight into their experiences of a medical world, each followed by a brief medical perspective. The book will be helpful to all professionals working with children. There is a void in training which only parents who have faced such situations can fill. The book may also help families in similar situations and facilitate discussion with the professionals involved.
It describes how others have endured, coped with, and eventually survived the experience.
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