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There’s a word for that kind of thing
when a newborn is treated as another pending, tragic statistic because her genetic diagnosis arrives before she does
when hospital staff take it upon themselves to issue a DNR for an infant “with problems” admitted to their care shortly before
when lethal doses of medication go mysteriously missing from a diagnosed infant’s medication cabinet, along with the usually meticulously kept medication reports, shortly before that infant dies
when all a hospital can do is issue an apology for “errors in communication”
when a coroner’s office is unwilling to fulfill its duty to release crucial medical information to family members in the suspicious death of an infant, or to answer basic questions about the case
when we sit by
in memory of Annie Farlow
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