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Losing Touch

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  • Ken Wu, M.B., B.S.

In providing surrogate incubators for babies who were born too soon, we in the NICU place painful restrictions on the most basic of human relationships, the one between parents and their child, as medical demands require parents and baby to lose touch with one another.

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This article was published on May 1, 2021, at NEJM.org.

Author Affiliations

From Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London.

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