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DK Readers: Jobs People Do -- A Day in a Life of a Doctor (Level 1: Beginning to Read)

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I purchased this book because there are others in the "DK Readers" series that are excellent (Police Officer, Firefighter, Weather). However, the inaccuracy of the so-called medical procedure paints a harmful picture for the age range intended. Part of the day of the "Doctor" includes a young girl who comes into the office complaining of a "bad stomach ache". The photo accompanying the examination shows the little girl lying on an exam table with the Doctor pressing on her stomach--directly below the ribs. The child's parent is then told that the girl needs to have her appendix removed. The appendix is not located just beneath the ribs, but near the pelvis on the right side of the body--very low on the torso...definitely not the stomach!!!!! It is irresponsible for a publisher to allow a book for pre-schoolers to go to press when the information in it is inaccurate and frightening! Why would you read a book to your child that would plant the thought that if he or she had a stomach-ache (and whose child hasn't) that an operation to take something out of him or her would be the result! Children this age take things very literally and would trust anything a parent would say or read to them--they haven't the experience to know that a "tummy-ache" is probably just the six scoops of ice cream they just ate, not an appendicitis.