Pediatricians sometimes find ourselves holding small children down and treating them against their will. When cleaning the wax out of a toddler’s ear, for example, to see if there’s an infection, we don’t ask the child’s opinion
Source: Bioethics Bulletin by the Berman Institute of Bioethics.
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