“The belief that quality care and quality of life during that [hospital] stay are mutually exclusive is a fallacy that has been exposed as such by children’s hospitals for some time now,” Mark A. Attiah, a student at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, wrote in the article “Treat Me Like a Child,” published in JAMA.
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