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Healing and harming

Beth L Pineles1, Etan Milgrom

  • 1Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9239, USA. pineles@usc.edu

The Journal of Medical Humanities
|May 16, 2012
PubMed

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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