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How parents can become better advocates and co-decision makers in the medical process

by Lily Collison

I wrote this essay as a guest post here. I am the parent of a now 25 year old who has spastic diplegia, a common form of cerebral palsy (CP). I can so clearly remember the next words the pediatrician spoke, after he had just told me that my son had CP – “And if I want...
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