Toluwalese (Lase) Ajayi, MD
Pediatric Palliative Care, Rady Children’s Hospital
![Marginalized populations struggle to be seen and heard. They have to fight that fight first before they can be seen as parents.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AEFvdthjQlo/sddefault.jpg)
Marginalized populations struggle to be seen and heard. They have to fight that fight first before they can be seen as parents.
A Black pediatrician acknowledges that families of color or low SES believe they have to fight to be heard and seen; it’s an additional hurdle; and sometimes the fact that she is Black helps her connect more easily.
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Marginalized populations struggle to be seen and heard. They have to fight that fight first before they can be seen as parents.
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What can parents do if they feel their child’s pain is not being understood by clinicians?
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A Palliative Care Pediatrician: I love being with the parents to help bring back their child that is getting lost in all the stress and noise.
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Tension can occur when a family’s love or ritual conflicts with the hospital’s protocols and policy
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A physician on building alignment with the family: I start with “What is harm vs no harm for your child?” It brings us back to the child.
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A Palliative Care MD on the PERSON Model for Assessing People’s “Goals of Care”
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What can parents do to help clinicians hear them better?
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A pediatrician on how clinicians can help families feel seen and heard: 1) accept our unconscious bias and 2) listen
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A Black Palliative Care Physician’s Messages to Parents of Color and to Colleagues
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