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Dr. Christopher Johnson is back with a new book, How To Talk To Your Child’s Doctor, and was kind enough to speak with me again about how it came to be.
Dr. Johnson inaugurated this podcast series with, Your Critically Ill Child – Life and Death Choices Parents Must Face, a Library Journal pick for their list of Best Consumer Health Books of 2007, and I was very impressed, imagining how helpful it would be for parents in devastating crisis.
But How To Talk To Your Child’s Doctor is for everyone. I’ll have to concede that it’s geared towards parents, but anyone looking to know how doctors think will be able to use this vastly helpful book in advocating for the patient – whether that be their child or themselves. It’s fascinating, well organized, and should be handed out with that little freebie diaper bag they give you at the hospital with your new baby.
I really do consider this a must-read for parents of children of all ages and for anyone else who’d like to feel less of an outsider while sitting in that lovely paper gown.
Dr. Johnson is the former director of the Mayo Clinic’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and he currently attends patients and establishes protocol in several Pediatric Intensive Care Units around the United States. His books and projects can be found on his website, along with a terrific set of resources for pediatric issues.
http://www.chrisjohnsonmd.com/
Dr. Johnson has also been snared to write a children’s health column for the national PTA website. You can find the first installment here.
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