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To the Editor.
Recently, the care that pediatricians provide to dying children has begun to attract attention.1 Numerous specialty boards and organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, have developed professional standards on end-of-life care for their members.2,,3 Although it may not be accurate to attribute inadequate end-of-life care to a single factor, insufficient training of clinicians in palliative care methods is undoubtedly a major contributor to the problem.4 Certainly, the textbooks used to train pediatricians must share some of the blame. Our previous research has revealed grossly deficient coverage of end-of-life content in 50 best-selling medical textbooks, including 4 top pediatrics textbooks. …
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