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Edited by Robert D. Christensen. 453 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 2000. $75. ISBN 0-7216-7727-4.

Justification for the existence of pediatrics and the many pediatric subspecialties is based on the belief that infants and children warrant specialized care and that pediatric diseases are sufficiently different from those in adults to warrant specialized treatment. Furthermore, not only is the age-related spectrum of diseases different, but the physiology of young children varies considerably from that of adults. In no area of pediatrics are these differences more apparent than in neonatal medicine. As a consequence, subspecialists who practice neonatology, of necessity, become super-subspecialized, acquiring knowledge and developing skills that are fairly specific, if not unique, to neonatal medicine. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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