Parents Of Dying Newborns Need Clearer Explanation Of Options
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 20:35
in Health & Medicine
Parent-doctor discussions about whether to maintain or withdraw life support from terminally ill or severely premature newborns are so plagued by miscommunication and misunderstanding that they might as well be in different languages, according to a small but potentially instructive new study.
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