PEDIATRICS Vol. 98 No. 5 November 1996, pp. A67
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. . .An overwhelming consensus has developed in recent years that there are no substantial moral or legal distinctions between artificial feeding and other medical treatments. Anyone who believes that eating and drinking in normal children are remotely similar to providing a feeding tube for severely brain damaged children has never been present at the bedside of these patients and has no good sense of the medical reality.