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Ethics and the care of critically ill infants and children

The ability to provide life support to ill children who, not long ago, would have died despite medicine's best efforts challenges pediatricians and families to address profound moral questions. Our society has been divided about extending the life of some patients, especially newborns and older...

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Published in:	Pediatrics (Evanston) 1996-07, Vol.98 (1), p.149-152
Main Authors:	Frader, Joel E, Crain, Lucy S, Moseley, Kathryn L, Nelson, Robert M
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