The mother who can't get Medicaid to cover all the needs of her sick child.
When your sick child asks, "can I see a doctor, " and you can't bear to answer.
This makes it hard for anyone with a sick child to quit and start a new firm.
Each ran for a sick child or "training partner, " who tracked his or her runner's marathon progress from home.
But he understands a sick child is something that overrides all other priorities.
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Understandably parents may be concerned about involving their sick child in research and want to protect them from 'rogue' researchers.
Scene Partner 3: She drank too much coffee today because she was up all night with a sick child .
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Staying home to care for a sick child or taking an elderly parent to a doctor's appointment shouldn't mean risking one's job.
The wait at the Apple store was almost as bad as being stuck having to take a sick child to an an emergency room.
The activity centre is also open to siblings of young patients to enable parents or carers to be able to focus on the sick child.
This is especially key for families who might need to take time off to align with school breaks or stay home with a sick child.
Slockett said early voting is insurance against the expected -- finals at the University of Iowa or an out-of-town business trip -- or the unexpected, like a sick child.
My marriage was destroyed, my older children were passed from pillar to post and eventually put into foster care because I spent months on end at a time in hospital with the sick child.
We can talk all we want about freedom and opportunity, about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but what does all that mean to a mother or father who can't take a sick child to the doctor?
"I call Europe the sick child of the world nowadays because there are so many issues that have to be addressed -- starting with budget deficits (and) public spending -- that need to be addressed quite seriously, " said Levy.
But a lot of activities, such as chaperoning school field trips, helping a sick child make a collage, reading to older people who have lost their eyesight or participating in an AIDS walk with friends, can be lots of fun.
Brown insisted he had never given permission for the Sun newspaper to report that Fraser had cystic fibrosis, and he rejected the Sun newspaper's explanation that it had heard about the condition from a person who also had a sick child in the hospital.
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"It's hard for some people to get their head around the fact that it is OK to have the parents in there, even if the child is near death, but we are providing care for the entire family, not just a sick child, " Dr. Allen says.
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And on top of it was the more graspable everyday bewilderment of a sick child: the humiliation of being suddenly removed from class, the disappointment of missing a trip to the IMAX theater or to the rain-forest exhibit at Moody Gardens, the growing awareness of a defining and isolating vulnerability.
Based on their parenting roles, some female business chiefs have sought to ease staffers' work-family conflicts by introducing perquisites such as "flex-time" and sick-child facilities.
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Their firm, which has 2, 000 employees, does not have child sick-leave provisions and she feels she and her husband have worn their employer's goodwill thin already.
When you were done, you found that 97 out of 100 expert doctors agreed your child was sick and needed treatment.
Imagine if your child were sick and the doctor said she needed treatment, and out of prudence you went and got a second opinion.
With the insurance industry obligated to provide this coverage, parents would be incentivized to delay purchasing insurance for an individual child until that child gets sick.
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The most common excuses included pretending their child was sick (35%), visiting sick relatives (20%), a family wedding (18%) and a trip for educational purposes (16%).
Citibank, the poster child for sick banks and the victim of a weeks-long short raid, announced that it operated at a profit for the first two months of 2009.
Where we do understand we are all in this together, that when a child is sick and can't see a doctor, the family loses everything because someone had an accident, when a mother or a father lies awake at night worrying about how they possibly care for the people they love.
He never forgot the sheer terror and helplessness that any parent feels when a child is badly sick.
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