"Anything you can do, I can do bigger?": the ethics and equity of growth hormone for small normal children.

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Published in Arch Dis Child on March 01, 2006

Authors

D G Gill1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Paediatrics RCSI, Children's University Hospital, Temple Street, Dublin 1, Ireland. gilld@iol.ie

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