Caring for the youngest patients — the joys and heartbreaks of pediatric medicine
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She was born at the edge of viability — twenty-three weeks, 480 grams, translucent skin, lungs that were barely formed. Every ventilator setting, every medication, every intervention was at the outer limits of what medicine knew how to do. And she kept surviving.
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They were running a code on a pediatric patient when the security camera captured something in the hallway that none of them could explain. The hospital administration classified the footage. The nurses never stopped talking about it.
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She had been a PICU nurse for twelve years. She had seen children die. She thought she understood death. Then she heard the whisper.
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The infant was born at twenty-three weeks, weighing just over a pound. The neonatology team gave him a ten percent chance of survival. His family held prayer vigils in the hospital chapel every night. Against every prediction, he not only survived but thrived — and the NICU staff had to grapple with what they witnessed.
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The boy was four years old and had never seen a photograph of his paternal grandfather, who died when his father was a teenager. Yet he described the man's appearance, his occupation, and the nickname only family members knew — and he described him standing at the foot of his hospital bed.
Public descriptions say the book draws on more than 200 physician interviews and presents 26 selected accounts.
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Public descriptions say the book draws on more than 200 physician interviews and presents 26 selected accounts involving end-of-life experiences, unexpected recoveries, faith, and other events the narrators found difficult to explain.
By Dr. Scott J. Kolbaba, MD. Check the retailer for current formats, pricing, and reader ratings.