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What is Privileged Presence?

What Matters in Health Care?

Why Stories?

Why These Stories?

As Unique as Snowflakes: Responding to Individuals

I am Not a Patella

Aunt Mary

Respect for Dignity

Friends in Low Places

Who Will Walk the Dog?

Unriddling the Riddle

When Life is Threatened: The Importance of Support

Death-Life

Flying Blind in a Frightening World

Living the Opposites

Journey of the Green Elephant

I Needed a Guide

Rise & Shine

Profoundly Isolating Experience

His Name Means "Rise Above the Storm"

Natural Allies: Partnerships in Care

We Are Not Visitors in Her Life

Something's Wrong-Please Listen to Me!

That's What We're Here for

When the Brain is Broken

It Takes a Team

Investing in Information

It Just Comes Naturally

Awash in Disappointment

More Than Words: Feeling Heard and Being Valued

Triple Win

^ Surgical Suspense on Sundays

Healing Effect of Listening

Tattoo it on Our Hearts

Enormous Burden is Lifted

Where's the Headache?

I'm the Full-Time Tenant of this Body

Value of Asking Questions

Being Together: The Power of Family

I Want My Children with Me

Smiles Tell the Story

Olivia's Story

It Was as Hard as it Gets: The Impact of a Global Crisis on Family-Centered Care

It's Not About Time: Small Moments and Lasting Memories

Everyday Gifts

Lingering Effects

Simple Sentences

Making the Unbearable Bearable

She Sang Him His Life

Magic of Music

Thanks for the Good Seats

Within a Single Day

Hope for the Future: Passion for the Possible

Learning from Tragedy

Capacity to do Good

Finding Meaning in Chaos

It Doesn't Take Much

White Coat

When the World Turns Upside Down: A Doctor Experiences Being a Patient

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Different Stories, Similar Echoes

To Fix, Help, or Serve

When One is Overwhelmed

Intensity of Memories

Moving on

Building the Momentum for Change

Leading the Way: Key Organizations Devoted to Improving Care

Institute for Family-Centered Care

Kenneth B. Schwartz Center

Other Organizations Contributing to the Momentum for Change

Useful Tools for Promoting Change

Patient- and Family-Centered Care: Definition and Core Concepts

You Have the Right to Compassionate Health Care

Partners in Care: Conversation Starters-A Tool to Facilitate Discussion

Key Questions to Ask

Educating Health Care Professionals: Approaches for Developing Patient- and Family-Centered Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes

Sharing Personal and Professional Stories

Furthering the Case for Change: Selected Bibliography.

Medical care > Anecdotes.

Anecdotes as Topic.

Delivery of Health Care.

Interpersonal Relations.