A Path to Wholeness

Since the medical establishment and society had not yet adapted family-centered, community-based, shared decision-based care, institutional care of infants was commonplace. Over the subsequent 50 to 60 years, care became more humanistic, partly in response to contemporary issues of social welfare as well as changes in social consciousness. Here, Milstein et al say these interventions may open the door to approach other congenital central nervous system disorders potentially amenable to fetal neurosurgical techniques. Perpetually having medicine and society reevaluate their approach to other challenging conditions may translate comparable advances in other areas as well. Physicians should continue to be reflective, raising their understanding and awareness, regarding the interactions between medicine and society.