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A mother came into my clinic with her ex-premature baby who had been through the mill of neonatal intensive care but appeared to be doing very well. After we had finished the consultation and I had praised her and her baby for the excellent progress they both were making, she asked me what I thought of another doctor's opinion, that her daughter had "a touch of cerebral palsy". The physiotherapist and I agreed that her daughter did not have cerebral palsy, and I reassured her, but asked whether she hadn't been distressed at the diagnosis. "No" she replied "because you had always warned me of the risk". Oh that breaking the news of cerebral palsy and explaining it to parents was so simple!
In a paper in last month's Archives of Disease in
Childhood, Baird and colleagues discuss the thorny problem of
how to disclose the diagnosis of cerebral
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