excerpt from Leaving Earth
I was on a third-year medical school rotation in the pediatric intensive care unit in January, 1986, on a team caring for a baby girl with Listeria meningitis, spinal cord stiff and curved into a C-shape, head reaching back for her heels, as if stargazing.
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“Leaving Earth.” Please See Me, no. 2, 19 Sept. 2019,