Guest blogger: Julie Gilchrist, MD
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Julie Gilchrist, MD
People who work in hospitals and emergency departments can tell you. Treating kids is a hard job—especially when a child comes in with a serious injury that could have been prevented. I still get sad remembering some of the cases I worked on as a doctor in Philadelphia—many of my stories don’t have happy endings.