The Incubator
The Incubator
Ben Courchia & Daphna Yasova Barbeau
#404 - 🔵 [NEO CONFERENCE] - What guides us when parents disagree on medical care? (Dr. Mark Mercurio)
20 minutes Posted Mar 4, 2026 at 7:00 am.
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Send a text When parents fundamentally disagree on life-saving interventions in the delivery room, how do clinical teams decide the next step? Live from the NEO Conference, Ben and Daphna sit down with Dr. Mark Mercurio, Executive Director of the new Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Mercurio dissects a highly complex ethical case regarding parental disagreement over resuscitation at the border of viability. Emphasizing the distinction between parental "prefere...