Perri Klass

Perri Klass (born 1958) ia an American pediatrician and author of both nonfiction and fiction. Her short stories have won several O. Henry awards. Quotes The safest way to transport a sick newborn, so hospital wisdom goes, is when it is still inside its mothers. Baby Doctor https://books.google.com/books?id=8VAsAAAAYAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=newborn 1992 249 Random House 978-0-679-40957-1 Change can come slowly in medical practice—unless of course it comes in a sudden and absolute flurry of discovery, evidence-based recommendations, and new standards of care. But the kind of change that is based on consensus, on slowly dawning realization, or just on revamping ingrained habits can be slow indeed—it has not proved easy, for example, or even doable, to get physicians to expand our role by screening regularly and consistently for maternal depression, home firearm safety, or domestic violence. Pediatrics by the Book: Pediatricians and Literacy Promotion Pediatrics 110 5 2002 989–995 0031-4005 10.1542/peds.110.5.989 When I write about medicine, I write about patients, always trying to pin down the complicated pieces of other people's lives that go spinning past me. As a resident, exhausted beyond belief, I would come home and sit down and write the story of a surprising patient encounter, a hospital moment that I felt I would never forget. A month or two later I would look at the reference and the child would have slipped my mind completely, displaced by the parade of children and families and conversatioins and exam-room encounters and unfolding medical histories. Perri Klass Preface Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor https://books.google.com/books?id=KWAdS-mGZrIC&pg=PR13 xiii 26 August 2008 Basic Books 978-0-465-00872-8 Advice ought to be all about the patient, and that means, I know, that I shouldn't withhold good advice even in situations where I haven't been able to follow it myself. My patients are entitled to my knowledge and understanding rather than my backsliding—to my strengths, shall we say, rather than my weaknesses. The Elephant In The Exam Room Health Affairs 29 3 2010 554–557 0278-2715 10.1377/hlthaff.2009.0931 For many practicing pediatricians, the imperative keeps coming back to the exam room. Recently, in the pediatric outpatient clinic at Bellevue Hospital, which has served the poor of New York City since 1736, I saw a toddler who was seriously overweight, and I tried to talk with his mother about ending the practice of nighttime milk bottles. The mother became very distressed when I broached the subject of the child’s weight, and the risk of severe dental caries. She knew it all — she had already been through dental procedures for her son, she was worried about the family history of diabetes and the risks associated with obesity. But if she didn’t give her son a milk bottle, he would cry — loudly and at length — and his crying at night disturbed the other people sharing the apartment, who all had to get up early for work or school. She was clearly worried that following my advice might mean losing her living situation, which was already tenuous. The toddler in my exam room was already suffering from some of the chronic diseases — obesity, dental caries — that are part of the medical risk of poverty. 2016 Saving tiny tim–pediatrics and childhood poverty in the United States N Engl J Med 374 23 2201-2205 https://stepup.ucsf.edu/sites/stepup.ucsf.edu/files/2016_NEJM,%20Tiny%20Tim(2).pdf (quote from p. 2203) Driving down child mortality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was in no way a single project, but it can be seen as a unified human accomplishment—maybe even our greatest human achievement, at least for pediatricians and parents. Introduction A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future https://books.google.com/books?id=fNjVDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=unified&f=false 13 October 2020 W. W. Norton 978-0-393-61000-0 (ebook) External links Category:1958 births Category:Living people Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Essayists from the United States Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Short story writers from the United States Category:Women physicians from the United States Category:Harvard University alumni Category:Pediatricians