Holding a family’s fragile, premature newborn is a humbling moment — especially as a newly minted doctor.
That was me 20 years ago. I’m a pediatric ophthalmologist, and I’m called in to help when premature babies have an eye disease called retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). It’s the condition that blinded Stevie Wonder, and when I began practicing, I cared for some babies who lost vision from ROP despite my best efforts.
As a new doctor in 2001, I saw another young baby because his parents felt he wasn’t able to (Read more...)