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PEDIATRICS (ISSN 0031 4005). Copyright :#{235}:#{149}1986 by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

COMMENTARIES

Opinions expressed in these commentaries are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the

American Academy of Pediatrics or its Committees.

Acute

Medical

Care

of Severe

Head

Injury

Is Not Enough

As

indicated by Jacobson et a! in this issue

(Pe-diatrics 1986;77:236) significant head trauma is a

major and frequent occurrence in adolescents and

in younger children as well. The major advances in

emergency medical services-helicopter transport,

trauma centers, and management of increased

pres-sure-has had dramatic effects on the survival rate

and, probably, on the quality of survival of children

with closed head injury. However, discharge from

the hospital of a child who is able to walk, although often considered the end point by the surgical team,

is clearly not sufficient for the parent and child.

As Jacobson and his colleagues indicate, dis-charge is not the end but the start of many

prob-lems. The child who looks normal often has many

intellectual, judgmental, and personality problems

which, to a large extent, are related to the injury. The lack of physical evidence of the trauma

corn-plicates society’s response to these organic deficits. Many of the deficits resolve gradually with time,

usually 2 to 6 months and often more than 2 to 3

years. We know little or nothing about this recovery

process or about how it can be facilitated. As

Ja-cobson et al indicate, when the injury occurs in adolescence, it may be particularly difficult to

dis-tinguish adolescent problems from organic deficits.

The superimposition of depression, anger, and frus-tration, as well as parental guilt and frustration, compounds the problems.

Where is the family to turn for help? This is rarely the sphere of the busy neurosurgeon. The pediatrician has rarely been involved in the acute

problems of the intensive care unit and the

recov-ery. But perhaps, the pediatrician should be

in-volved while the child is in intensive care. Not

necessarily in the management of the increased

pressure but in helping the family to cope with the initial anxiety and grieving, with the ensuing hope and frustration, and with the long-term adjustment

to deficit and recovery. The pediatrician is well trained to help the child or adolescent adjust to

daily problems and to interface between the child

and family. He is also best equipped to work with the school system to design an appropriate school

program and to cope with the school’s anxiety and

restriction.

Jacobson and colleagues have pointed out a gap

in care, an important gap, that the pediatrician could well fill.

JOHN M. FREEMAN, MD

Department of Pediatrics and Neurology The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Baltimore

Academic

Hubris

Envy and pique and vanity, all the passions of

self-regard. You could not live long in a society of men and not see them weigh down the rest.

-c.p.

Snow in The Masters

I have always liked the word hubris ever since I

heard it on my first day of college from a humanities

professor as he talked about the ongoing feuds

between Sparta and Athens. Professor Arragon of Reed College defined hubris as “stiff-necked.” Webster’s New World Dictionary’ defines it as

“wanton insolence or arrogance resulting from

ex-cessive pride.” Lewis Thomas2 writes that hubris

Presidential address delivered to the Ambulatory Pediatric As-sociation, May 10, 1985, Washington, DC.

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first turned up in popular English use as a light

piece of university slang at Oxford in the late 19th century, with the meaning of intellectual arrogance

and insolence. I define hubris as looking out of a

high turret in an ivory tower and being unable to see the ground because of the clouds.

My general theme is that hubris runs rampant in academia and is manifested by individuals in the power structure who view themselves as possessing some form of moral superiority over those who toil in the kitchen, or outside the ivory tower. Faculty

in ambulatory/general pediatrics are destined to be

chronic kitchen dwellers. (Granted, some of us

relish our underdog status and have a need to wear

hair shirts, but that is another story.)

Academic hubris creates a needless gulf between

schools of medicine and medical practitioners, re-sulting in the training of finely honed dinosaurs,

ill-suited either to meet pressing health needs of

the public or to survive themselves in a changing environment. The chasm between the practicing and academic medical communities deprives the former of potentially enlightened leadership and the latter of potential political and economic

sup-port necessary for survival.

Here are some of the manifestations of hubris as I see them: Our present form of pediatric training

was forged in the 1950s and, despite repeated calls for reform, has changed very little. Recall that the

“new pediatrics” was proclaimed by Charles May3

in 1959. The disparity between pediatric training

and the skills required by pediatricians in practice

has grown ever wider. Our vocational guidance of

trainees is abysmal. We send them, like lemmings, over the cliff into careers that are as viable as

shoeing horses.

General pediatric training, which, if training had any relation to function, would get the most

re-sources, gets the least. General academic

pediatri-cians continue to sit at the back of the bus.

Even in research, some of the most important

child health problems, like injuries, and the rela-tionship of poverty to premature birth and infec-tions, continue to be ignored. The reasons for this state of things can be found in the natural instincts of self-preservation. We medical school faculty members desire to replicate ourselves in order to justify our existences. Like any other group of more than two persons, we exist as a collection of tight guilds that wish to retain power. How else can we

explain the recent action of the pediatric residency

review committee in requiring block rotations in hematology/oncology, cardiology, endocrinology,

and nephrology? Is it just coincidence that these

are the only pediatric subspecialties with official

board certification?

In other worlds, like business or politics, working

to acquire power and wealth is considered natural and desirable. In academia, however, we cloak these

natural base instincts under our priestly robes,

point our noses skyward, and proclaim that we act on behalf of others, like students, residents, or

children of the United States.

MEDICAL SCHOOL BREEDS INSECURITY

Medical school breeds insecurity. The overriding theme is: “You have to know so much . .. especially

about my subject . . .or else you will make a mistake

and kill somebody. If you narrow your focus of

expertise, you are less apt to make mistakes.”

Stu-dents and residents are constantly influenced to lodge on “tight little islands” of expertise. For ex-ample, it is not enough to be a hematologist; one must specialize in red cells, white cells, platelets, or

clotting factors. How else is it possible to “keep up?” The above thoughts are most apt to be

pro-mulgated by those faculty furthest removed from

the responsibilities of caring for patients.

It is, of course, natural that the importance of

being familiar with the newest developments in science would be stressed by those who are im-mersed in acquiring new knowledge. Yet, all of us

former medical students who were exposed to en-thusiastic teachers proclaiming “the last word,”

know the wisdom of the wise teacher who says: “I know that half of what I teach as fact will be proved false in 10 years. The hard part is that I don’t know

which half.”

Simpson4 says:

Our “standards of excellence” have tended to be uniquely

self-satisfying. They do not seem very excellent in the

ghetto, in the rural areas, or for the homeless. Most

attempts to define thees mythic standards have proved

to be self-descriptive and self-congratulatory inventories drawn up by small elite groups.

ORIGINS OF ACADEMIC HUBRIS

One way of justifying our lower incomes to

our-selves, and our spouses, is that we have some higher moral and/or spiritual calling than our practicing

brethern. Petersdorf,5 however, says:

Academicians expect too much of academic medicine. They wish for the gentility of the academician of yester-year, the income of the cardiovascular surgeon, and the

kudos of the molecular biologist who clones a new gene

(provided that it is the right one, of course), and they

complain if they don’t get it all.”

In this discussion I am talking mostly about clinical subspecialists and I am exempting basic scientists. Perhaps the basic scientists do have a higher moral calling. I propose a trade-off. Pay

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them as much as clinicians. Their contributions to

better health doubtless will be greater than mine. But get them out of positions of influence in the

training of physicians. Basic scientists originally

were brought into medical schools to lend some

class to what, up-to-then, had been curricula filled

with witchcraft. They succeeded. Now they should

release their tentacles from the medical

students-few basic scientists have any idea of what

physi-cians are called upon to do-and concentrate on

what they truly care about, conducting research and teaching their own graduate students.

In a wonderful review of 20th-century child health care in the United States, Hugh Thompson6

recalls the golden fifties, with the burgeoning of the

pediatric subspecialties, and the succession of

won-der drugs such as antibiotics, anticonvulsants,

anti-histamines, and steroids. He points out that, at the

time, it was possible for pediatricians in practice to

subspecialize. That era is long past. Now

subspe-cialists can only exist within large medical centers.

The 1950s were also the golden years of the

National Institutes of Health (NIH), where

subsi-dies for medical education were provided indirectly

through research and research training grants. It is interesting to speculate what would have happened if there had been direct federal support of medical

education. Such a proposal, put forth in 1951 by

President Truman, was torpedoed by the American

Medical Association (AMA).

As mentioned previously our residency training

programs took their form during these years. The biggest change has been a burgeoning of intensive care, both for neonates and older children, which consumes much resident time and energy. Thanks

to modern technology, much of what now passes for inpatient wards in childrens’ hospitals are, in

fact, large chronic intensive care units. Our

resi-dents are burdened with having to make endless

moral decisions, eg, “why must I continue to obtain

blood gas levels on this tragic infant with no

func-tioning bowel or lungs?”

In the 1960s when I was involved in a health manpower study, I interviewed a pediatrician in Bellingham, Washington, Kenneth Jernberg, about how well his training prepared him for practice. I will always remember one of his responses: “I

es-pecially value the time I spent on night call at the hospital. It gave me a chance to go around the ward

and learn how to talk with kids.” Now, our harassed

residents on the ward are lucky if they ever talk

with any kids or parents. Carrying pagers that never cease beeping, they are mostly occupied as super-secretaries, scheduling tests and treatments, and staying in touch with the numerous consultants involved with their patients.

ACADEMIC HUBRIS AND GENERAL PEDIATRIC TRAINING

One of my most valuable experiences as a teacher

was exchanging jobs in the summer of 1968 with a local practitioner, Alfred Skinner.7 I learned two major lessons. The first was that management skills were more important than diagnostic skills. The

exact etiology of an illness did not matter if the

child got better the next day. The other was having to make numerous small decisions, alone. That is in contrast to the teaching hospital, in which deci-sions are usually made in groups. The British

psy-chiatrist, Michael Balint8 characterized the

multi-specialty and multilayered care in teaching hospi-tals as the “collusion of anonymity”-vital deci-sions are made without anybody feeling fully

re-sponsible for them.

Thompson6 notes that the two major changes

that have taken place in pediatric practice in the

last decade are increased attention to psychosocial

and behavioral issues and the extension of care until patients are 21. Yet, what proportion of our training programs are devoted to preparation for these two activities? What proportion of “hard

money” positions in pediatric faculties are held by teachers of behavioral pediatrics, adolescent medi-cine, or even general pediatrics?

One of my Seattle colleagues, David Shurtleff,

runs what I consider to be one of the best programs

in the world for children with multiple handicaps,

which includes an outstanding research component.

All of the fellows trained by Shurtleff have found excellent jobs. Yet, our residents and students steer clear of rotations on his service. “Too depressing,” most of them say. It is more than that. Chronic disease, in general, is not fashionable in academic

circles. At the same time, the residents flock to take elective rotations in the various subspecialty

“olo-gies” to deal with various forms of exotica that most of them will never again see. Given the enormous advances in a field like cardiology, for example, about all a primary care pediatrician needs to know

is whether a baby is blue or pink, whether his heart is beating, and where he should be referred.

ACADEMIC HUBRIS AND CONTENT OF PEDIATRIC TRAINING

It is possible to define the content of general pediatric training, as has been done so nicely by the Education Committee of the Ambulatory Pediatric

Association.9 Our students and residents must

re-ceive systematic training in development and be-havior. They should develop communication skills, such as how to talk with a family about a dying

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sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), child abuse,

and obtaining permission for an autopsy. They need to learn how the physician’s own feelings affect his

care ofchildren.’#{176} Our trainees should possess some

familiarity with resources for children outside the medical sphere, such as schools, the welfare system,

the juvenile justice system, and institutions for the

disabled.

Are these areas of knowledge and skills with which only a general pediatrician should be

famil-iar? Of course not. They are basic for anyone

in-volved with any aspect of child health care. I have mentioned the repeated calls for enhanced

training in adolescent medicine that are totally ignored by the pediatric academic establishment. It

is well-nigh criminal to graduate pediatric residents

who have no experience dealing with sexuality, pelvic examinations, sexually transmitted diseases, drug and alcohol abuse, school dropouts, and sports

medicine. Will we allow these areas to be the

exclu-sive province of family medicine and internal med-icine?

With a few notable exceptions, faculty in

ambu-latory and general pediatrics are recruited to

aca-demia with blocks of cement chained to their feet. They carry large clinical service and teaching loads

in clinics and emergency rooms with scant free time

for research. Whereas a superstar subspecialist de-mands and gets office and lab space with research assistants, the generalist is lucky to find a cubby-hole off the clinic waiting room to share with the

financial eligibility interviewer. At this point, I must pay tribute to my own chairman, Herb

Abel-son, at the University of Washington. His first

faculty recruit after taking the job was a general pediatrician who received a commitment of at least

50% of time to conduct research and some seed-money to get started. That, of course, is the only

way that a general pediatrician, or any faculty member, for that matter, has a chance to survive

in the academic world. There are a few universities

who possess a “critical mass” of academic general pediatricians, but they are the rare exceptions. Pe-diatric department chairmen wishing to improve the quality of their ambulatory pediatric programs must do more than wring their hands. They must match their money with their mouths.

An interesting new development is the push for health maintenance organization-type faculty prac-tice plans in order to shore-up department income. When I reflect on the number of pediatric faculty capable of providing primary care, my heart goes out to the parents and children who were inveigled into signing up. What if the T cell specialist finds

himself on call on a busy weekend?

RESEARCH HUBRIS

Hubris is never more in evidence than when

decisions are made on the types of research to receive funds or on the qualifications of individuals performing research. Much discussion takes place in medical school appointment and promotion corn-mittees and in the councils of prestigious research societies about what constitutes real research or soft research. As usual, the vote goes to the status

quo.

Befitting my penchant for hair shirts, I have been associated with two research “losers,” SIDS and injury prevention. In 1970, I submitted an abstract to the Western Society for Pediatric Research on research priorities in pediatrics. I pointed out that

virtually no research was being conducted on the two biggest killers in the pediatric age group after

the first week of life, injuries and SIDS. The gist of my message was that members of pediatric research societies should address the issue of how research priorities are set.

The president of the society called to ask, as a personal favor, whether I would withdraw the ab-stract (the paper, of course, was not accepted for

presentation), because all of the abstracts were publishedin Clinical Research, and “this one would be embarrassing.” I refused; the abstract was duly

l Unfortunately, nobody noticed.

The pediatric academic community has no cause

for pride in the SIDS story. Did the scientists push for funds to conduct research in SIDS? Certainly not! A modest research effort got underway at the National Institute of Child Health and Human

Development (NICHD) only after parents who had

lost babies raised enough hell, through their

sena-tors and congressmen, to push some money onto the research establishment.’2

As president of the National SIDS Foundation from 1972 to 1977, it was my job to go all around the country trying to establish humane manage-ment programs in each community to assist families

who had lost infants. Each of our local chapters

had a medical adviser to “run interference.” In only

two of the approximately 35 chapters at the time

were these advisers academic pediatricians. The vast majority were pediatric practitioners, usually

the busiest in each town, who shouldered this hu-manitarian job, just as they took on their

commu-nity problems.

At least there is now a modicum of research effort

in SIDS. The same cannot be said for injuries.

Parents of burn or drowning victims do not band together to plead their cases. For 15 years I, among

others, have been trying to interest the Department

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of Health and Human Services, in general, and

NICHD, in particular, to tackle the biggest killer

of children, to no avail. Although the American

Academy of Pediatrics has been supportive, the leaders of the pediatric research societies sort of mumble and shuffle their feet. Potential harm to

existing funded research by bringing a “new boy on the block” is the reason most often given. The

concern is perhaps legitimate. The unwillingness to

join in seeking alternatives is not. It is hubris.

From the testimony of the Acting Director of NICHD, Duane Alexander, to the Senate Appro-priations Subcommittee for Health and Human Services on the 1976 fiscal year budget, one might

think that lightning had finally struck. He said:

The most important child health problem following

in-fancy is injury. From age one throughout childhood more children die from injury than any other cause; in fact, more than the six next leading causes combined. Many non-fatal injuries cause permanent disability. With the encouragement of this committee, which last year

re-quested that we develop a special report on injury

pre-vention, and of the American Academy of Pediatrics, we

have developed two special solicitations for grant propos-als related to injury prevention.

It turns out, however, that $500,000 of the total request of $293,084,000, or 0.17%, of NICHD’s budget was being allocated to “the most important child health problem following infancy.” Hardly the dawn of the millennium.

ACADEMIC HUBRIS AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

In 1964, Freymann’3 wrote a fascinating paper on leadership in American medicine. He noted that from the time it was organized in 1847, until 1920,

the AMA existed primarily to reform and improve

medical education in the United States. The leaders

of the AMA were the great scientist-clinicians of

the era. Abraham Jacobi, for example, served as president in 1913. In a letter that is timely today Jacobi’3 wrote:

If my angry correspondents would

. . .

interest themselves in their county and state societies and in the elections of their various delegates, they would have less reason to

complain of what some of them term the oligarchy of Chicago and the autocracy of the House of Delegates.

In 1920, most academicians left the AMA. The main reason, according to Freymann, was the emer-gence of full-time teachers and the fact that the medical education reforms had, for the most part, been completed.

William Osler, although not a president, was also active in the AMA. In 1911, he said:

What would the school [Hopkins] have been ifthe clinical

men had not been active in the local and national

socie-ties? Would whole-time men have the same influence in

the profession at large? I doubt it. (Quoted in reference

13.)

Writing in 1964, Freyman&3 said

The result [academicians leaving the AMA] is what one

might expect if the leadership of the American

govern-ment had been left, by abdication of interest and

respon-sibility, in the hands of the ultraconservatives who came

to power in 1921 with Warren G. Harding.

As president of the American Academy of Pedi-atrics this year, Robert Haggerty has done an

ad-mirable job of trying to get the academic and prac-ticing communities to pull on the same oar, espe-cially in the political arena. The relationship be-tween pediatric practitioners and academicians

needs to become even closer, for the sake of mutual

survival, if not common sense. It is more important that the interaction take place at the local and state

levels than at the national level. Specifically, I call

upon my academic colleagues to become involved

in state Academy chapters and local and state

med-ical associations. We can help each other. (I cannot,

in good conscience however, call upon my

col-leagues to join the AMA. Despite the admonition

of Dr Jacobi, that organization does not come close to representing my interests, and seems impervious to change.)

WE CANNOT AFFORD HUBRIS

Universities are under fire from legislators who want to cut costs. Medical schools are urged to cut back on the number of students, except when the

prospective students are the sons and daughters of legislators. Research is under fire from

antiintellec-tuals who demand high-visibility, quick-hit proj-ects, such as heart transplants. Research training money has virtually vanished.

Likewise, practicing pediatricians are under fire. Academicians generally fail to realize the impor-tance of such issues as malpractice insurance costs and vaccine compensation. The value of health

supervision is denigrated. Heavily promoted

“doc-in-the-boxes” bankrolled by large corporations threaten the survival of pediatric practitioners. Im-posed fee schedules are upon us, both from private insurance companies and state and local govern-ment. If no one fights for adequate fees for

chil-drens’ services, we can be certain that those services

will shrink even further.

Finally, because of lack of economic and political

power, the status of children in our society is

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selfish-256 PEDIATRICS Vol. 77 No. 2 February 1986 ness in which children suffer. There are all too few of us who devote our professional careers to chil-dren to countenance unnecessary divisions.

No one person’s work is inherently more valuable

than another’s. We cannot afford hubris. We must

work more closely together so that we ourselves

survive and, more importantly, the interest of chil-dren is served.

You are not obliged to complete the task but neither are you at liberty to abstain from it.

Rabbit Tarfon in Ethics of our Fathers

ABRAHAM B. BERGMAN, MD

Department of Pediatrics

University of Washington School of Medicine

and Harborview Medical Center Seattle

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Children

and Car Seats

Almost since the emergence of the First Ride-Safe Ride concept some 15 years ago, loan or rental programs for child car seats in maternity hospitals and community centers have been a popular method of promoting child restraint use. Today there must be hundreds of such programs

through-out the United States. The Dunedin rental program

(Pediatrics 1986;77:167-172) is certainly a unique

approach, but some aspects of it may lack practical application, at least in the United States. For ex-ample, it would be unlikely that we could saturate

a community with free car seats or have available

so broad a staff support system. The fostering of an attitude that views as “socially unacceptable”

allowing children to ride in cars unrestrained should be pursued here. What possibly distinguishes our

two countries also is that a child restraint law may have greater effect on compliance in New Zealand than in the United States. At least this appears to

be borne out as far as belt use is concerned.

Worth noting is the juxtaposition of legislative

intervention in our two countries. In the United States, legislation for child restraint use began with

Tennessee in 1978 and continued state by state until, by 1985, all had approved such a law. Seat belt laws, on the other hand, although introduced time and again in many state legislatures, fared less

favorably. It was not until January 1, 1985, that the

first belt use law went into effect in the State of

New York. At the time of writing, belt use laws

have been approved in 16 states and are in effect

in six. In New Zealand, belt use has been mandatory

since 1972, but the law exempts children younger than the age of 8 years. Interestingly, guidelines for

“model safety belt laws,” formulated by the US Department of Transportation in 1973, excluded

children younger than the age of 6 years, a stipu-lation we strongly opposed. There were no child restraints available at that time that would

accom-modate children older than age 4 years, and we knew then, as we know today, that the use of belts

is preferable even for small children than no re-straint at all. As it happened, the model belt laws

came to nothing.

One would have expected that the belt use laws

in place in New Zealand since 1972 would have raised the level of consciousness on the importance of child occupancy protection, yet at the time the

Dunedin experiment began, child restraint use was low and no child restraint law was yet in effect.

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