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"This is a gripping medical narrative that brings readers into the complex world of newborn intensive care, where brilliant but imperfect doctors do all they can to coax life into their tiny, injured patients. Dr. Adam Wolfberg--journalist, physician specializing in high-risk pregnancies, and father to a child born weighing under two pounds--describes his daughter Larissa's precipitous birth at six months, which left her tenuously hanging on to life in an incubator. Ultrasound had diagnosed a devastating hemorrhage in her brain that doctors reasoned would give her only a 50 percent chance of having a normal IQ. With the knowledge that their daughter could be severely impaired for life, Adam and his wife, Kelly, consider whether to take Larissa off life-support. As they make decisions about live-saving care in the first hours of a premature infant's life, doctors and parents must grapple with profound ethical and scientific questions: Who should be saved? How aggressively should doctors try to salvage the life of a premature baby, who may be severely neurologically and physically impaired? What will that child's quality of life be like after millions of dollars are spent saving him

Who reads Fragile Beginnings: Discoveries and Triumphs in the Newborn ICU (Harvard Health Publications Book)?

Author

Adam Wolfberg, MD

Publisher

Beacon Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807011669

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Health & Fitness, Science

Rating

3.68 / 5 (157 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14