Kate Nelson, MD, PhD

Staff Physician, Pediatric Palliative Care

Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Kids

A physician on the power differential between clinician and patient/parent in the hospital: There is such a cost to parents that is not the same for clinicians

Palliative care doctor Kate Nelson acknowledges the power differential between the clinician – who is very comfortable in the hospital setting – and the parent and patient for whom it is a foreign and unsettling place. Clinicians and parents are in very different places. She teaches residents to appreciate that differential. She encourages parents to tell the oblivious clinicians that they need a moment.

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Kate Nelson, MD, PhD

A physician on the power differential between clinician and patient/parent in the hospital: There is such a cost to parents that is not the same for clinicians

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