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Managing Conflict When There’s Disagreement in Care Between Medical Providers, Caregivers, and Patient

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The medical care of children with life-threatening and life-limiting illness is a crucible containing many volatile issues and complicated circumstances that predictably provoke conflict between well-meaning people. This chapter will review the prototypical types of conflicts that occur in the practice of pediatric hematology/oncology and propose methods of managing these conflicts that hinge on established ethical principles and disciplined reasoning. We draw on the broader field of conflict management for an empirically grounded understanding of conflict and conflict resolution strategies.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology Section and Center for Medical Ethics & Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Ernest Frugé

  2. Psychosocial Division, Texas Children’s Cancer & Hematology Centers, Houston, TX, USA

    Ernest Frugé

  3. Department of Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology Section, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Michael Sprehe

  4. Hematology-Oncology, Children’s Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Michael Sprehe

  5. Department of Pediatrics, Critical Care Medicine Section and Center for Medical Ethics & Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Laura Loftis

  6. Intensive Care Service, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

    Laura Loftis

  7. Department of Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology Section, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Melody Brown-Hellsten

  8. Palliative Care Program, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

    Melody Brown-Hellsten

  9. Institute for Academic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

    Courtenay Bruce

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Frugé, E., Sprehe, M., Loftis, L., Brown-Hellsten, M., Bruce, C. (2020). Managing Conflict When There’s Disagreement in Care Between Medical Providers, Caregivers, and Patient. In: Mazur, K., Berg, S. (eds) Ethical Issues in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22684-8_4

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