Robert S McKelvey

When a Child Dies

How Pediatric Physicians and Nurses Cope

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this first book to focus on the grieving process of doctors and nurses for their child patients, physician Robert McKelvey interviews members of a pediatric hospital staff, specifically those working in intensive care and hematology-oncology units where children often die and where caretakers have a great deal of experience with terminal illness. "This book by Dr. McKelvey is as important and valuable as any I've ever read. It is such a pleasure to read, no matter the melancholy moments in the stories told, and will appeal to a general audience as well as a medical one. It's a major effort of mind, heart, and soul, conveyed to us lucky -- and needy -- colleagues with splendidly poignant and penetrating prose." - Robert Coles, Harvard Medical School

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780295986531
• ISBN-10: 0295986530
• Artikelnr.: 21487084

Autorenporträt

Robert S. McKelvey

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Residents
1. "The patient dies and that's it, next patient!"
2. "They came into the hospital with a daughter and they left with a small
blue box of her stuff."
3. "What prevents us from being 'midwives of death,' something that has
always been the physician's role?"
4. "What could you say? It wasn't all right. Her beautiful only child was
going to die."
5. "I can't remember a time that we got together and talked about our
feelings. Men don't do that."
Part II. Attending Physicians
6. It's my job to get families through the worst time in their lives."
7. "Coping with death is a process; you find your own way."
8. "It's not about me, it's about the patient."
9. "People don't know how long the pain from the death of a child lasts. It
takes years."
10. "I love caring for young families and six babies."
11. "I know I'm not God, but I always try to save them."
Part III. Nurses
12. "No one understands what we do and no one can empathize with what we're
going through except us."
13. "I've seen way too many dead babies."
14. "Being faced daily with the fact that life is temporary and
unpredictable seriously affects the way I live."
15. "There's nothing right about a dead baby."
16. "You can't open your heart to everyone and be grieving all the time."
Conclusions
Appendix A. Interview Questions
Appendix B. Survey of Prior Research
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index