Single-mom adventures with autism: living through my son's surgery

This is a story about my autistic son's surgery. Autistic patients are very common in the medical field but they aren't very well represented in graphic novels or medical literature. This is a simple story about my 6-year-old son's minor dental surgery and the various steps that medic...

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Main Author: Phoebe Cohen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University College of Medical Sciences 2019-02-01
Series:Research and Humanities in Medical Education
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Online Access:https://www.rhime.in/ojs/index.php/rhime/article/view/199
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Single-mom adventures with autism: living through my son's surgery
Research and Humanities in Medical Education
Autism
Graphic medicine
Medical humanities
Reasonable accommodation
title Single-mom adventures with autism: living through my son's surgery
title_full Single-mom adventures with autism: living through my son's surgery
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title_full_unstemmed Single-mom adventures with autism: living through my son's surgery
title_short Single-mom adventures with autism: living through my son's surgery
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Graphic medicine
Medical humanities
Reasonable accommodation
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