In a fast-paced, complicated, and evermore dangerous world it is easy to become self-absorbed and consumed with our own problems.
In the case of Margaret Mohrmann and her patients, no one could ask for better teachers..
Attending Children is a unique experience as Mohrmann takes the reader on a doctor\'s rounds over many years to meet the faces and the struggles, the heartaches and the joys of being a pediatrician.
She introduces us to not only the physical challenges she, her colleagues, and her patients encounter, but the spiritual ones as well.
Mohrmann has sifted through her thirty years as a pediatrician, and with poignancy, humor, and uncompromising honesty, she shares her sometimes stumbling but always deeply caring journey through a land where, sometimes, small hands have to be let go too soon.
Her narratives are both painful and hopeful, tragic and funny, full of remarkable characters and sometimes bizarre families.
Margaret Mohrmann has devoted most of her professional life to them, and in Attending Children she shares the remarkable Education those children and their families have given her.
It is no less difficult--and perhaps even more difficult in many ways--for physicians who have chosen to attend to the health and well-being of gravely ill or dying children.
That place is where sick children dwell.
There is one place, however, where we put our self-centered concerns aside, and our deep, common humanity is profoundly touched.
In a fast-paced, complicated, and evermore dangerous world it is easy to become self-absorbed and consumed with our own problems
