I would never want this for my baby.
OBJECTIVE
To explore end-of-life issues and so-called futile care by narrative.


METHODS
Narrative.


RESULTS
This article is a narrative reflecting on so-called futile care, on caregivers' moral distress and on parents' heart breaking decisions to let go.


CONCLUSIONS
Through this story, the physician manages to solve the conflict between the caregivers and the parents by not placing a do not resuscitate order, offering a short code in case of an arrest, and not abandoning them.
Janvier
Annie
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Department of Pediatrics-Neonatology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. anniejanvier@hotmail.com
D001293:Attitude to Death; D004644:Emotions; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D019102:Infant, Very Low Birth Weight; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009359:Neonatology / Q000379:methods*; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011247:Pregnancy; D011262:Pregnancy Trimester, Second; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D028761:Withholding Treatment