TY  - JOUR
T1  - WHy don't we talk?
AU  - Jones M, Jr
Y1  - 2009/09/07
N1  - 10.1001/archpediatrics.2009.143
JO  - Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
SP  - 865
EP  - 866
VL  - 163
IS  - 9
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 1072-4710
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2009.143
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpediatrics.2009.143
ER  -