OP-ED: When policy decides between life or death before medicine can
Richard Dur writes, "Medicine advances when physicians refuse to let yesterday’s assumptions dictate today’s care."
Author: Richard Dur
The room was too quiet. Delivery rooms are supposed to be noisy.
Monitors beeping. Nurses calling out numbers. Someone saying, “He’s here!”
Instead, there was a pause, the kind that stretches longer than it should, as a baby smaller than anyone in the room had ever seen was lifted into the light. He fit easily in two hands. His chest fluttered. His skin was almost translucent. Someone whispered a weight: ounces, not pounds.
