When a Child Dies: How Pediatric Physicians and Nurses Cope

by Robert S. McKelvey

Book Overview

How is it possible for practitioners of the healing arts to cope with the deaths of children and the devastating grief of their families? Physician Robert McKelvey looks squarely at this painful question and gets to the heart of it in When a Child Dies. Although the stories he tells are replete with heartbreak, he achieves a higher purpose by illuminating the successes and failures of medical training in helping doctors and nurses confront...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295986530
• ISBN13: 9780295986531
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher