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• Title:When a child dies : how pediatric physicians and nurses cope / Robert S. McKelvey.
  
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• Author/Creator:McKelvey, Robert S.
  
• Published/Created:Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2006.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WS105.5.E5 M355 2006
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Terminal care.
  Children--Death--Psychological aspects.
  Physician and patient.
  Children and death.
  Terminally ill children.
  
• Medical Subjects: Death--Personal Narratives.
  Grief--Personal Narratives.
  Adaptation, Psychological--Personal Narratives.
  Medical Staff, Hospital--psychology--Personal Narratives.
  Pediatric Nursing--Personal Narratives.
  
• Description:viii, 319 p. ; 22 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-312) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780295986531 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  0295986530 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents: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."
  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 sick babies."
  11. "I know I'm not God, but I always try to save them."
  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."