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Neonatal intensive care is one of the most dramatic recent advances in medicine. Every year, 53,000 babies are born prematurely in the United States. The newborn intensive care unit, with its sophisticated technology, has become the artificial womb for these infants, and although most infants treated in this unit go on to lead full and productive lives, others are left with multiple problems, such as blindness, seizures, chronic lung disease, and neurologic damage. This is one reason the health care system in the United States is sometimes seen as mindlessly driven by a technological imperative.
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