Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Time for transition? We can help.

Kitty O'Hare, MD

By Kitty O?Hare, MD, coordinator of Transition Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital’s Martha Eliot Health Center.
The field of pediatric medicine has come a long way in the past few decades. Kids with health conditions like sickle cell disease, heart conditions, even cancer are living, full, healthy lives into adulthood.
It’s a great accomplishment, but with increased survival rates come unique challenges. In addition to treating their chronically ill patients, today’s pediatricians need to prepare them for adult life, where they will be responsible for managing their own health. But according to a recent national survey, we doctors aren’t as good at helping our patients transition into adulthood as we could be: less than half of all ...

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