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Writing in
The Washington Times, Dr. Ben Carson highlights the life-or-death power entrusted to medical professionals and institutions:
Several years ago, I was consulted by a young woman who was 33
weeks pregnant and was on her way to Kansas get an abortion. I informed her of
the multiple options available to her outside of abortion and she decided to go
through with the pregnancy even though the child had hydrocephalus and required
neurosurgical intervention after birth a few weeks later. She kept the baby and
loves the beautiful child that has resulted.
A couple of decades ago, I came into the pediatric Intensive Care
Unit on morning rounds and was told about a four-year-old girl who had been hit
by an ice cream truck, and was comatose and exhibiting little neurological
function other than reactive pupils. I tested her pupillary reflexes and both
pupils were fixed and dilated. The staff indicated to me that this is something
that must have just occurred. I grabbed the bed and with some help, transported
her quickly to the operating room for an emergency craniotomy. I was met along
the way by a senior neurosurgeon who told me I was wasting my time and that at
best, we would end up with someone in a vegetative state.
Nevertheless, we completed the operation and a few days later,
her pupils became reactive and she eventually left the hospital. I saw her a
few years ago walking through the hospital with her own 4-year-old little girl.
She was neurologically fully intact and told me she had become somewhat of a
celebrity because of the experience I just related. What do these two stories
have in common?
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