Everyone's Child: A Pediatrician's Story of an Inner-City Practice

by Claire McCarthy

Book Overview

From Simon & Schuster, Everyone's Children is Claire McCarthy's book about one pediatrician's story of an inner city practice.

A young doctor describes her practice in an inner-city health clinic in Boston, detailing her remarkable patients and their families, as well as their struggles to overcome the physical and social problems of poverty

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743242688
• ISBN13: 9780743242684
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

textbook needed

i got the book in a short amount of time and it was in good condition

Superior Account of a Doctor's Pediatric Career

This book, Everyones Children, is very deep. Dr. Claire McCarthy is a breathtaking pediatrician, who tells about her patients troubles and her life. Not only does McCarthy describe her medical career, she also describes how she helps teh families psychologically, and her home life. McCarthy's way of describing her patients' problems isn't often optimistic in the begining, but sometimes her view changes. Her descriptions of her patients, home life, and family are very intense and details are given. The book is written skillfully, catching the readers attention immediately, from the very first sentence. This is a wonderful book to read if you like medical/psychological child-care, or if you are interested in reading about working with children in a poor area.

A pediatrician describes working with low-income families.

Dr. Claire McCarthy has elevated the struggles of her busy workday into an interesting and realistic account of medical practice in a poor Boston neighborhood. She describes her routine work at Martha Eliot Health Center without dramatizing her patients or the mundane aspects of care. Her descriptions of families are sensitive and clear. Her description of her own attempts to have meaningful medical relationships in the context of poverty, disease, violence and drug addiction is careful and honest. This book portrays urban social problems from the perspective of one person working to make a difference; we should all have such meaningful vocation.

Wonderful, sensible, interesting - a terrific book!

This is a wonderful book about Dr. McCarthy's experiences as a pediatrician in a clinic. She writes beautifully about the patients, current welfare problems and she gives suggestions about what we - as readers, parents, etc. - can do to make things better. McCarthy writes a great column in Sesame Street Parents Guide.