Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Grateful Patient Stories
Interviewing & Writing Patient Stories
Fully researching the child's condition, pulling from the wealth of resources available on the institution's website, is the best way to get information that will pass the clinical team's fact check process, and not run into second round revisions.
It's a challenge to write what, exactly, is so transformative about being able to do the things that many of us take for granted. Accurately describing the medical effects their symptoms produced in the patient tells the story for you.
A great way to say the care team did their job well (without saying it outright) is to illustrate the incredible change in the patient's quality of life. In this case, a boy frequently hospitalized for asthma is now a varsity football player.
