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In order to choose the relevant Human Books, to
make them available in the MedVET library, we
made a small research: we had preliminary one-on-
one interviews with potential volunteers, and we
also organized focus groups with parents and
medical professionals. We wanted to better
understand which are the “blind spots” in the
knowledge and understanding of medical
professionals regarding the behaviour of parents
who are expecting or have a newborn with special
needs, their necessities, expectations and vice versa.
During the analysis of the data, we identified what is
general and repetitive in the expectations and
experience of the participants. This way, we were
able to define the profile of the most “problematic”
participants and circumstances that impede the
interaction between the parents and medical
professionals and thus to choose the most useful
“stories” about communication between them.
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