AAP News Vol. 3 No. 4 April 1987, p. 4
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CHAPTER NEWSLINE

Montana: Baby Doe network

The Baby Doe issue has caused many city and suburban hospitals to create infant bioethic review committees (IBRCs). Some rural hospitals, however, are so small — with no more than 40 beds — that they rarely come upon a Baby Doe case.

Until recently, many hospitals in Montana faced this dilemma, said Jeffrey H. Strickler, M.D., chairman of the AAP Montana Chapter.

If such a situation should occur in one of these hospitals, the infant probably would be transferred to the closest urban medical center. However, if the patient could not be transported, the rural hospital personnel would be confronted with unexpected ethical questions, Dr. Strickler said.