A Two Year Old goes to Hospital ( Robertson Films)
Available to buy from: Classic film showing the suffering of a little girl in hospital separated from her mother. (Please specify long or abridged version. ) If going to hospital means losing the care of the mother, the young child will fret for her no matter how kind the doctors, nurses, and play ladies. This film classic, made in 1952, drew attention to the plight of young patients at a time when visiting by parents was severely restricted. Laura, aged 2, is in hospital for 8 days to have a minor operation. She is too young to understand her mothers absence. Because her mother is not there and the nurses change frequently, she has to face the fears, frights and hurts with no familiar person to cling to. She is extremely upset by a rectal anaesthetic. Then she becomes quiet and settles. But at the end of her stay she is withdrawn from her mother, shaken in her trust. In recent years there have been great changes in ch
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