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Deserve's Got Nothin' to Do With It: A Philosopher Visits the NICU

Authors: David I Waddington


Affiliations

1 Department of Education, Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, Canada.

Description

After the death of my daughter Zoe in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), a colleague asked me whether my status as an academic philosopher changed my experience in the NICU. In this short narrative, I outline 5 ways in which philosophical perspective helped me understand and cope with our hospital experience.


Keywords: challengesend-of-life carepatient perspective/narrativespediatrics


Links

PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30214922/

DOI: 10.1177/2374373517747241