The greatest pressure to resuscitate the extremely low-birth-weight infant often results from successful marketing efforts that lead families to expect that their premature infants will be cute and healthy.
Medical education must acknowledge the problematic use of race as a biological or epidemiological risk factor in research and the controversy over race.
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10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.6.peer1-1706.