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- Jonathan Gillis and Bernadette Tobin.
- Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. jonathan.gillis@sesiahs.health.nsw.gov.au
- Pediatr Crit Care Me. 2011 Jan 1;12(1):71-2.
ObjectiveTo argue that pediatric intensive care physicians have difficulties in responding to parental questions about prognostic certainty, and that this constitutes a failure in their professional responsibility to parents.ConclusionsThese difficulties arise from three sources: 1) the structure and organization of contemporary intensive care, 2) the neglect of prognostication, and 3) the failure to distinguish scientific certainty from practical certainty. It is proposed that an understanding of these issues will enable physicians to respond to the parental question "How certain are you, doctor?" with more authenticity and sincerity.
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