Why "Doctor, if this were your child, what would you do?" deserves an answer

Journal of Clinical Ethics

Volumn 14, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 59-62

  Ross, Lainie Friedman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD CARE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PARENT; PEDIATRICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; COUNSELING; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; HUMAN RELATION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LONG TERM CARE; PATERNALISM; PEDIATRICS; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TRUST;

PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

CHILD; CHILD, HOSPITALIZED; COMMUNICATION; COUNSELING; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; PARENTS; PATERNALISM; PEDIATRICS; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; TRUST;

EID: 0642312197     PISSN: 10467890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (19)

1. R.D. Truog, "Doctor, if this Were your Child, What Would You Do?" Pediatrics 103, no. 1 (1999): 153-4.
2. I b i d.
3. W. Ruddick, "Questions Parents Should Resist," in Children and Health Care: Moral and Social Issues, ed. L.M. Kopelman and J.C. Moskop (Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic, 1989): 221-9.
4. Truog, see note 1 above.
5. Ruddick, see note 3 above.
6. I b i d.
7. Truog, see note 1 above.
8. Ruddick, see note 3 above.
9. I b i d.
10. I b i d.
11. Now, of course, one may argue that I come from a privileged position in that I am a physician and do not feel pressured by the recommendations of my child's physicians. But I hope I am smart enough to realize that when my child is a patient, that she is the patient. See, for example, F.J. mgelfinger, "Arrogance," New England Journal of Medicine 303, no. 26 (1980): 1507-11; R.C. Wasserman et al., "Health Care of Physicians' Children," Pediatrics 83, no. 3 (1989): 319-22. How I may be privileged is that I have found physicians for my children who are willing to take on the additional burdens of caring for a physician's family, and that these physicians are willing to take the time to get to know us and to treat my children as "real" patients. See, for example, S.A. Schneck, "'Doctoring' Doctors and their Families," Journal of the American Medical Association 280, no. 23 (1998): 2039-42.
12. Now, of course, one may argue that I come from a privileged position in that I am a physician and do not feel pressured by the recommendations of my child's physicians. But I hope I am smart enough to realize that when my child is a patient, that she is the patient. See, for example, F.J. mgelfinger, "Arrogance," New England Journal of Medicine 303, no. 26 (1980): 1507-11; R.C. Wasserman et al., "Health Care of Physicians' Children," Pediatrics 83, no. 3 (1989): 319-22. How I may be privileged is that I have found physicians for my children who are willing to take on the additional burdens of caring for a physician's family, and that these physicians are willing to take the time to get to know us and to treat my children as "real" patients. See, for example, S.A. Schneck, "'Doctoring' Doctors and their Families," Journal of the American Medical Association 280, no. 23 (1998): 2039-42.
13. Now, of course, one may argue that I come from a privileged position in that I am a physician and do not feel pressured by the recommendations of my child's physicians. But I hope I am smart enough to realize that when my child is a patient, that she is the patient. See, for example, F.J. mgelfinger, "Arrogance," New England Journal of Medicine 303, no. 26 (1980): 1507-11; R.C. Wasserman et al., "Health Care of Physicians' Children," Pediatrics 83, no. 3 (1989): 319-22. How I may be privileged is that I have found physicians for my children who are willing to take on the additional burdens of caring for a physician's family, and that these physicians are willing to take the time to get to know us and to treat my children as "real" patients. See, for example, S.A. Schneck, "'Doctoring' Doctors and their Families," Journal of the American Medical Association 280, no. 23 (1998): 2039-42.
14. Ruddick, see note 3 above.
15. Truog, see note 1 above.
16. I b i d.
17. Ibid.; Ruddick, see note 3 above.
18. J. Katz, The Silent World of Doctor and Patient (New York: Free Press, 1986).
19. Ruddick, see note 3 above.