Helping pediatric residents cope with trauma of treating children
UCLA Health | February 19, 2016
A mother walks into the pediatrician’s office with her child who is experiencing headaches. Not much appears to be wrong. But after a few tests, the pediatric resident knows that a dire prognosis will need to be delivered. This situation is a nightmare for any parent, but also stressful and incredibly sad for the physician. Dr. Jessica Lloyd, assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at UCLA, remembers such situations all too well from her own residency, completed at UCLA in 2009.