Dr Defilippis Summary

Dr. Defilippis discusses how communicating with children is difficult when their parent is sick. She discusses how she is used to talking to adults when someone is dying, but when talking to a child, it’s complicating. You don’t want to discuss too much, because children not only are more sensitive to these topics, but they often do not understand what is being said. The mother she was treating had brain cancer, Stage 4, which even her daughter knew was the worst. Dr. Defilippis was shocked when her daughter knew exactly what to ask and how to ask it when it came to her mother. She knew at that point not to hide anything, and be straight forward. The patient’s daughter looked about fourteen, with a younger brother of ten. When the doctor approached