Year: 2021
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Talking about family friendliness today is a brave and outspoken thing to do because the term and its meaning are not really trendy. Questioning the family is part of the zeitgeist. However, the basic cell of the human community that has been unshaken over the course of history is far more obvious and irreplaceable than passing fashion might suggest. At the boundary of health and disease, the family is particularly important in the course of the disease and in the logistics of care. Health care is more efficient and effective if it focuses on this essential community and builds on its resources. I suggest that anybody who questions the role and importance of the family spend a few days in a children’s ward or hospice. Directly or indirectly, the question of family, its joy or lack of it, its strength or weakness, its influence to make somebody ill or heal them, are vibrantly present around patients at almost every moment. It is professional evidence that a loving and caring family prevents much harm and makes recovery speedier and more effective. As a paediatric anaesthesiologist, I have clearly seen the difference in the risk of complications when children are anxiously awaiting surgery alone or when they are prepared for anaesthesia together with a loving mother.
Author: György János Velkey
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W7214664239