Discharging a Child When Their Local Medical Care is Not Adequate: Should There be a Double Standard for the Developing World?

June 7, 2007

Christine Grady, RN, PhD, FAAN
Head, Section on Human Subjects Research, Department of Clinical Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Patrick Healey, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatric Surgery, UW; Chief, Pediatric Transplant

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