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(Pediatrics in Review. 1987;9:67.)
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Pediatricians: Generously Caring or Self-Abnegating?

Coulson A. Conn MD1
 1 Media, PA

The essay in Pediatrics in Review, "Giving to Our Patients—Should We Draw the Line?," by Dr Larry Nazarian (1986;8:67), although thoughtful and making many good points, goes astray, I believe, when it deals with unfair demands placed on the pediatrician by parents. Dr. Nazarian succumbs to the tendency in each of us that creates so much frustration in practicing pediatricians: in caring for children we tend to adopt a parenting attitude, but then we inappropriately transfer this attitude to adults and also parent them. Too often, instead of dealing with parents as equals, we become paternalistic; of course, we deny this to ourselves and talk about being "caring" and putting ourselves in the child's place.






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