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Heal Thyself?
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The baby wasn't as lucky as my own infant son. Both were born in 1995
more than two months prematurely. After gazing at Roy in his incubator
in the neonatal intensive-care unit of Peking Union Medical College
Hospital in Beijing, I strolled past a row of bassinets containing other
newborns. At the end lay a child with seaweed-colored skin stretched
tight over his skull. I motioned to the young attending doctor, figuring
she hadn't yet noticed his death. She had. The child's lungs were
underdeveloped, she explained, and lack of oxygen at birth meant...