Owning their Own Care: Adolescent Medicine Physician Helps Teens with Chronic Illness get Ready for Health Care as an Adult
Adolescence is, by definition a time of risky behavior, hormonal upheaval conflict with authority and bad choices. For young people with a chronic illness, one can add anxiety about changing from their pediatrician to a new provider and assuming responsibility for the care upon which their life depends.
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