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Andy Whitelaw: neonatologist who led research on “kangaroo care” and changed thinking on neonatal brain injury

bmj · 2025-12-03 · canonical JSON source

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In lectures to medical students Andy Whitelaw would talk about a girl with cerebral palsy he knew as a young child. She could not walk or talk and such was the lasting impression she made that he chose medicine, despite mulling over a career as a fighter pilot.