Medicine: God gave . . . why take?

Last week was a week of torment for a Chicago dentist and his wife. Dr. & Mrs. Herman Colan could not decide whether to have their newborn daughter's eyes taken out, or to let her die from the tumor which was blinding her and which, if not immediately stopped by surgery or X-rays, was sure to reach her brain. The infant's left eye first showed the growth when she was four weeks old. If surgeons had removed that eye at once, the child's right eye might have been saved. The distracted parents turned...

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