Adapted by Robert HA Haslam MD FRCPC2 were you when you dropped the keys?”
George says,“I was about a hundred and fifty yards up the road when I dropped the keys.” …

The dominant definition of neglect asserts that it occurs when a caregiver fails to provide for
a child's basic psychological and physical needs. Flowing from this dominant definition …

Children are vulnerable because they need care not only to survive but also to develop their
basic physical, intellectual, and emotional capacities. Since children depend heavily on care …

Objective. Our goals were to assist residents in acquiring skills needed to care for children at
the end of life and to increase their comfort level regarding critical aspects of caring for dying …

Even starting from the position that individuals with disabilities enjoy the legal and moral
right to take their normative place in society, the existence of physical, emotional, or …

DrSmithisenteringafamilymeetingfora5-year-oldboy with relapsed leukemia and multisystem
organ failure. She intends to encourage transitioning from curative to palliative treatment. A …

What I want to do here is not so much to construct an argument as to confess some
misgivings. My misgivings concern children of a special kind who are familiar to anyone who …

Children who live with a complex chronic or life-threatening illness face extraordinary
challenges. Whether they are receiving disease-oriented treatment (aimed at potential cure …

UNIVERSALLY, THE DEATH OF A CHILD PRO-vokes extreme grief. Howa child dies may
also provoke fundamental moral disagreements—sometimes between parents, among …

Clinicians are sometimes reluctant to discuss prognosis with parents of children with life-
threatening illness, usually because they worry about the emotional impact of this …