A Child Shall Lead Them: Lessons About Hope from Children With Cancer - Hardcover

Komp, Diane M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0310379806 ISBN 13: 9780310379805

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1993

Synopsis

A doctor shares touching moments from her thirty-year career treating young cancer patients, weaving keen observations about medical ethics and faith issues through the story of one child.

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About the Author

Diane M. Komp, M. D. is a pediatric cancer specialist who teaches and practices at Yale University School of Medicine. Her work has been featured in Life magazine, U. S. News & World Report, Guideposts, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Washington Post. She lives in Connecticut and is the author of "A Window to Heaven."

Reviews

Komp, a pediatric oncologist at the Yale School of Medicine, follows her book about children facing death, A Window to Heaven , with this floridly inspirational collection of essay/stories about young cancer patients. Taking one day at a time makes child patients wiser than adults, according to Komp. Among her most dramatic cases are those patients requiring lengthy waits for donor cellular material followed by a delicate transplant procedure--like Crumb-bunny, the mortally ill baby to whom Komp addresses the letters that begin each chapter. Children, the author notes, depict and fight illness through personalized, storybook terms (pain is colored red, for example), with God an equally real presence. Komp stresses that she writes from the "point of view of a seasoned pediatrician and a faithful Christian," and as such is a strong believer in both treatment and prayer--the "interactions of body and soul." $25,000 ad/promo.
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Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0310379806
• ISBN 13: 9780310379805
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 173