RT Journal
A1 Jones M, Jr
T1 WHy don't we talk?
JF Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
JO Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
YR 2009
FD September 7
VO 163
IS 9
SP 865
OP 866
DO 10.1001/archpediatrics.2009.143
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpediatrics.2009.143
AB 
The way most sure is to be on the other end of medical words and emotions, as a patient or on behalf of a relative or friend. We also learn from parents. The circumstances need not be life or death. Anything that encroaches on the perfect baby imagined long before birth is “bad news.”1 A disorder as commonplace as ABO alloimmunization can provoke tears in a mother who hears only that she is “incompatible” with her infant. Information that is routine to us is not routine to others, nor is it always routine even to us. We remember our damp palms as we await our personal physician's verdict on an ache or lump or abnormal test result.