McCormick, Erin,

Too Young to Die: Saving Babies. Erin McCormick and Reynolds Holding. - San Francisco Chronicle, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Article 61, Family, 1522-3213; .

Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Originally Published: Too Young to Die: Saving Babies, Oct. 7, 2004; pp. n.p..

"For members of the medical team at UCSF [University of California, San Francisco] Children's Hospital, life and death issues...occur daily. On the hospital's 15th floor, babies often come into the world to be moved almost instantly through a window in the delivery room wall to the lifesaving interventions of the neonatal intensive care nursery. Here, it is common practice to have to weigh one baby's life against another's or the life of a mother against her child's. And even to decide that an infant's life will be so filled with illness, disability and pain that it isn't worth saving at all. For the past 40 years, units like this have been the front line in the nation's battle against infant mortality." (SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE) This article examines UCSF Children's Hospital and maintains that, in this facility, "America's know-how in combatting infant deaths is displayed at its very best."

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Decision making--Moral and ethical aspects
Hospitals
Infants--Mortality
Infants (Premature)
Life and death--Power over
Neonatal intensive care
Neonatology


California

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