In this first book to focus on the grieving process of doctors and nurses for their child patients, physician Robert McKelvey interviews members of a pediatric hospital staff, specifically those working in intensive care and hematology-oncology units where children often die and where caretakers have a great deal of experience with terminal illness. "This book by Dr. McKelvey is as important and valuable as any I've ever read. It is such a pleasure to read, no matter the melancholy moments in the stories told, and will appeal to a general audience as well as a medical one. It's a major effort of mind, heart, and soul, conveyed to us lucky -- and needy -- colleagues with splendidly poignant and penetrating prose." - Robert Coles, Harvard Medical School