PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - D G Gill TI - “Anything you can do, I can do bigger?”: the ethics and equity of growth hormone for small normal children AID - 10.1136/adc.2005.081778 DP - 2006 Mar 01 TA - Archives of Disease in Childhood PG - 270--272 VI - 91 IP - 3 4099 - http://adc.bmj.com/content/91/3/270.short 4100 - http://adc.bmj.com/content/91/3/270.full SO - Arch Dis Child2006 Mar 01; 91 AB - This paper argues against the use of growth hormone (GH) for small normal children (“idiopathic” short stature) with the following considerations: ethical (philosophical) grounds, cost-economic implications, and the rationale for treating normal physiological variation with a potent pharmacological agent. The author would prefer to see health and economic resources being directed to correct nutritional and environmental deprivation among underprivileged groups in preference to providing GH injections for small normal children.