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The Importance of Amy Lynn

Vincent J. Menna MD

Recently I became a grandfather for the first time, certainly not an unusual event. However, the gestation and birth of this little girl made me more keenly aware of my responsibilities and role as a physician and specifically as a pediatrician. Preoccupation with the practice of medicine and life in general may have clouded the memory of my own children as infants.

In clinical residency, we often would distance ourselves emotionally from seriously ill patients by various defense mechanisms; it was difficult to experience children dying and their parents' grief. Too often, we would use terms or expressions that would be abhorrent to the lay public.




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Pediatr. Rev., November 1, 2001; 22(11): 363 - 364.
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