Informed care picks up the pieces left by trauma [KansasCity.com]

Samantha Sangenito 3/3/154:00 AM

Never mind the little girl’s name. What’s important is that she was about 10 years old and all the doctors she had seen month after month had failed to ease her pain.

The girl’s stomach wrenched. Her chest tightened. Her skull seared with lightning-bolt headaches.

Then at Children’s Mercy Hospital, pediatrician Lisa Spector decided to probe with a different set of questions. Instead of asking what was wrong physically, Spector asked the girl what had happened to her in her young life. Quickly, the crux of her pain became clear:

Trauma.

[For more of this story, written by Eric Adler, go to http://www.kansascity.com/news...article11626103.html]

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