title: Tsunami.
abstract: Tsunami is a fictionalized, based on the true story of a mother and baby patients who attended my rural clinic for 12 months and disappeared. (All personal identifiers have been removed.) It is a story of a family physician trying to establish trust relationship with a young mother, that her past history and living conditions make it almost impossible for her to raise a baby. The narrative describes the struggle of the clinic staff to help the mother to keep a safe and healthy environment for her baby, and their failure to maintain open communication and support for the young mother, until the inevitable end.
authors.affiliation: Hebrew University, Hadassah School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, 99544 Bet Shemesh, Israel. rkannai@gmail.com
authors.forename: Ruth
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kannai
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D005194:Family Practice; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D049590:Postpartum Period; D011247:Pregnancy; D035502:Trust