Virtual Mentor on Dealing With Terminally Ill Children

Dealing with the terminally ill is difficult. And it is especially difficult when we deal with terminally ill children. Personally, I find it a challenging and exhausting process.

Virtual Mentor. July 2010, Volume 12, Number 7: 517-602. Full Issue PDF

July 2010 Contents

Pediatric Palliative Care

From the Editor

Pediatric Palliative Care: Born of Necessity
David Buxton
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Virtual Mentor. 2010; 12:519-521.

Educating for Professionalism

Clinical Cases

Nondisclosure and Emerging Autonomy in a Terminally Ill Teenager
Commentary by Sarah Friebert
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Virtual Mentor. 2010; 12:522-529.

“Please Let Me Hear My Son Cry Once”
Commentary by Wynne Morrison
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Virtual Mentor. 2010; 12:530-534.

An Overwhelmed Parent
Commentary by Robert Macauley
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Virtual Mentor. 2010; 12:535-539.

Medical Education

Microethical and Relational Insights from Pediatric Palliative Care
David M. Browning
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Virtual Mentor. 2010; 12:540-547.

Creating Training Opportunities in Pediatric Palliative Care
Laurie Lyckholm and Kathleen O’Kane Kreutzer
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Virtual Mentor. 2010; 12:548-553.

The Code Says

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics Opinions on Seriously Ill Newborns and Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders
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Virtual Mentor. 2010; 12:554-557.

Clinical Pearl

Artificial Hydration in Pediatric End-of-Life Care
Anne Keeler
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Virtual Mentor. 2010; 12:558-563.

Law, Policy, and Society

Health Law

Legal Restrictions on Decision Making for Children with Life-Threatening Illnesses—CAPTA and the Ashley Treatment
Paula Tironi and Monique M. Karaganis
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Virtual Mentor. 2010; 12:564-568.

Policy Forum

Do-Not-Attempt-Resuscitation Orders in Public Schools
Kathryn L. Weise
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Virtual Mentor. 2010; 12:569-572.

Medicine and Society

Trusting Them With the Truth—Disclosure and the Good Death for Children with Terminal Illness
Hannah L. Kushnick
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Virtual Mentor. 2010; 12:573-577.