Abstract

As part of a volunteering program, a medical student learns the story of a sick infant whose survival was wholly dependent on modern medicine. The family was pacified by believing, during pregnancy, that the fetus would be healthy. Poor counseling and unethical physician behavior led to the trauma of the family's struggle to keep its baby alive, happy, and as healthy as possible. The need for adequate, thorough, and individualized counseling is a critical and still unfulfilled need in patient care.

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Authors

Pineles BL, Milgrom E

Institution

Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9239, USA. pineles@usc.edu

Source

The Journal of medical humanities 33:3 2012 Sep pg 209-12

MeSH

Directive Counseling
Ethics, Medical
Female
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Intensive Care Units, Neonatal
Pregnancy
Prenatal Diagnosis
Renal Insufficiency
Urethral Obstruction

Pub Type(s)

Journal Article

Language

eng

PubMed ID

22585343