JurisMD was created to assist families who have lost a child to illness or injury who still have concerns and questions surrounding that tragic event.
I am Dr. Santa Bartholomew and I have practiced Pediatric Critical Care Medicine in a variety of high volume setting for the last 35 years all over the United States. Over that time, I have experienced with families the loss of their children to injury, cancer, sepsis and other diseases. Although, healthcare providers always mean to get it right that is not always the case. Sometimes lack of skill or education or appropriate support sets up a perfect storm that victimizes the child. In other cases, everything was done well but a child succumbs to illness. In either case parents are families are invariably left numb and questioning what happened. Often their ability to reason and understand complicated issues takes several weeks or months and questions begin to simmer in their minds.
During my years practicing I have often spoken to families and answered questions and concerns for them many months after they lost their child and those are often the same conversations we had at the time of their child’s death. But it is too much to take in an assimilate in the whirlwind of grief and loss, maybe too hard to understand the medical jargon an unskilled provider used to explain what is happening, just too much to take in while you are dealing with the thought of not seeing your most precious baby tomorrow.
We have created a place where you can come, discuss your grief, start to put the pieces back together and with the help of people who have been there before start to understand what happened to your loved one. Maybe it is just reading through the medical record with someone and having questions answered, maybe it is looking for reliable grief resources, maybe finding legal assistance in the case of negligence. We are here to guide you through this daunting process.
When I started as a pediatrician years ago my goal was to serve families and their children. Pediatric Critical Care helped me serve families through one of the most catastrophic chapters of their lives, the sickness of their child. And now JurisMD is here to help serve families who have suffered a terrible loss in regaining balance, understanding what happened to their loved one and helping with legal issues that may surround the death of their child.