To my friends in the black community: I hope your children breathe
The tenets of managing an ICU are relatively simple: Air goes in and out, blood goes round and round.
There’s this moment in the delivery room where everyone holds their breath. In that silence, we expect a tiny gasp or maybe a big cry. “Why isn’t he crying,” moms often ask. “Is there a problem? Is he breathing?” In that forever moment, the pediatrician in the room is wondering if they …
