PEDIATRICS Vol. 55 No. 6 June 1975, pp. 773
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Valerie Cowie

"First, it is reasonable to suppose that significant numbers of profoundly handicapped children, dragging out their existence in a limbo, which is inconceivable to us, are alive owing to possibly over-zealous care and the use of sophisticated techniques in the neonatal period. Secondly, much more undergraduate and postgraduate teaching should be carried out in the wards of hospitals for the mentally subnormal where these unfortunates live, and where they pass from the view of those who have saved them. Very many doctors, some of whom are especially responsible for the care of the new-born, go the whole of their professional lives without setting foot in the places where the profoundly handicapped live on into adult years and even old age."