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Tuesday 29 November 2016

Trauma in the family

If you've ever been a patient, as a doctor you will always find it enlightening, even if it's also unpleasant. If a family member is the patient the same applies, but more unpleasant/scary than if you're the 'victim'.

Here's the experience of  a hardbitten US traumatologist from the Bronx, Paul Levin, when his own daughter was smashed up. Like Steve Krikler's AMUART (see elsewhere), it's fascinating and contains numerous lessons


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