The Duty of the Physician to Care for the Family in Pediatric Palliative Care: Context, Communication, and Caring
Barbara L. Jones, PhD, MSWa, Nancy Contro, MSWb, and Kendra D. Koch, MAa + Author Affiliations aUniversity of Texas at Austin School of Social Work, Austin, Texas; and bLucille Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, Palo Alto, California Abstract Pediatric palliative care physicians have an ethical duty to care for the families of children with life-threatening …