Doctor helps redefine hope From: Daily Breeze | Date: December 23, 2007| Author: | Copyright 2007 Daily Breeze. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

He spent 22 years helping children come into the world, but now Dr. Glen Kamatsu cares for them as they leave.

He trained as a neonatologist, and was comfortable in a private practice he owned for the bulk of his career. Now Kamatsu heads the palliative care department at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Torrance and serves as the lead physician for TrinityKids Care hospice.

It was quite a career change, especially given that the field of palliative medicine and pediatric hospice is still relatively new. He was the only neonatologist in a fellowship program at the Dana Farber Cancer ...

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