Toluwalese (Lase) Ajayi, MD
Pediatric Palliative Care, Rady Children’s Hospital
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Marginalized populations struggle to be seen and heard. They have to fight that fight first before they can be seen as parents.

What can parents do if they feel their child’s pain is not being understood by clinicians?

A Palliative Care Pediatrician: I love being with the parents to help bring back their child that is getting lost in all the stress and noise.

Tension can occur when a family’s love or ritual conflicts with the hospital’s protocols and policy

A physician on building alignment with the family: I start with “What is harm vs no harm for your child?” It brings us back to the child.

A Palliative Care MD on the PERSON Model for Assessing People’s “Goals of Care”

What can parents do to help clinicians hear them better?

A pediatrician on how clinicians can help families feel seen and heard: 1) accept our unconscious bias and 2) listen

A Black Palliative Care Physician’s Messages to Parents of Color and to Colleagues
