Supporting and caring for families: the consultant neonatologist

Cath Harrison helps families make memories. “It’s my job to make the time that families spend with their babies very special—no matter how short it is. I feel privileged to do this for them,” she says.As part of her work as a consultant neonatologist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Harrison also supports families who have lost their babies. “Helping them through this is a humbling experience,” she says. Then there are babies born prematurely or with complex conditions who, with support and care from Harrison and the neonatal team, are eventually able to go home. “And some time later, when those babies come back to our clinic and their personalities have developed, it’s such a joy,” she says.Neonatology is an amazing specialty because it involves such a breadth and depth of medicine, Harrison says. She also enjoys the multidisciplinary approach that characterises the specialty. “We couldn’t do our jobs…
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