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Hilary Cass Quotes

England

Hilary Dawn Cass OBE is a British physician and a consultant in paediatric disability at St Thomas' Hospital, London. She was the President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) from 2012 to 2015.

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Random Hilary Cass quote

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Someone will bring in a baby because the baby has green poo, but grandma could have been able to say 'that's normal'.

Half the kids in A&E outpatients need not be in hospital and, if you come to hospital, you are more likely to be admitted.

Children are well one minute and very sick the next. So you have much less time than you have with adults.

If a family can walk out of the hospital having lost their child and say that they couldn't have been better supported, then I can go home and feel OK.

It is really difficult to spot a sick child.

Because of the toxicity of the debate, [children have] often been bypassed by local services who've been really nervous about seeing them. So rather than doing the things that they would do for other young people with depression or anxiety, or perhaps undiagnosed autistic spectrum disorder, they’ve tended to pass them straight on to the Gids service.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hilary Cass (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.