Ethics Committees-Reply
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Abstract In Reply.—I appreciate the comments of Drs Carter and Sparks on my article concerning the Children's Hospital National Medical Center Ethics Forum. However, they misunderstood several elements of that report. Nowhere in the article did I imply that pediatricians have more competence in making moral decisions than patients, families, or other members of the lay community. But pediatricians are not expected to have less competence. As Drs Carter and Sparks state,...