… however, are not always fulfilled, and it is not uncommon for a pediatric surgeon to be confronted with an … not consent to surgery, a patient who would probably have died had he been born 15 years ago. In such situations, a … gadget, capable of sustaining breathing for short intervals only, and, if used at all, was pressed into service just …
Essays
… up because the coughing and “clay-like expectoration” were coming back—“in large quantities,” Severn later said. Yet … upon me with extreme sensibility but without pain—at 11 he died in my arms.” Some fifty-eight years later, when he … the room was exactly like a grave. On Monday, February 26, in the predawn dark, a funeral procession consisting of …
Poetry
… the trickle of dirt dusting his lashes; after his wife had come sobbing through the glare of the kliegs and called …
Poetry
… of there is . . .and there is . . . . The owl and moon are points of departure. Pythagoras read the moon in a mirror, …
Essays
… July 1974. They would be wrong. The junta, born in secrecy, comprised no more than about 50 officers. It remained … occupation of the country during World War II. It was also characteristic of how superficial the reign of the … in the factory. The younger political leaders who have studied, as in the past, abroad, or, were forced to live abroad …
Photography
… ambulance was a reminder not just of our swelling hospitals but also of the strangers all around, listening to these … and then wait for an hour or more for a single person to come by. She returned to the same red light by a subway stop … to bring you right into the streets, to make you feel encompassed and surrounded by their eerie mood. Much of …