Word: neonatologist
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...Taken together, these policies represent a desperate and perhaps even radical attempt to contain the heart disease, diabetes and other metabolic consequences of an obesity epidemic that doctors believe has spiraled out of control. "We have to start somewhere," says Dr. Jatinder Bhatia, a neonatologist at the Medical College of Georgia and member of the advisory committee that spent two years devising the guidelines. Dr. David Ludwig, a pediatrician at Children's Hospital in Boston who was not involved in making the recommendations, agrees. "We have 8-year-olds who look metabolically like an obese 60-year-old. Research predicts...
...their lack of growing space and premature delivery, the septuplets were surprisingly big, ranging from a respectable 2 lbs. 5 oz. for Kelsey to a (relatively) strapping 3 lbs. 4 oz. for Kenneth. Still, like most preemies, all the babies had trouble breathing at first. Dr. Robert Shaw, the neonatologist in charge of the babies' care, originally predicted that this condition would last four or five days. But by Friday, Kenneth had begun breathing on his own and had his status upgraded to fair. The rest remained in serious condition, but that's par for the course. "We're trying...
...them should fail. The nation, indeed the world has become so involved in the progress of this plucky litter of prematures since their birth Wednesday that the loss of one of their number would feel like a grief on the scale of Diana. Not to fear, however ? neonatologist Dr. Robert Shaw pronounced Bobbi McCaughey's brood "warm, pink and comfortable...
...Jonathan Muraskas, the Loyola neonatologist who had advised the parents to "let nature take its course," admits that he devised the 1% figure only to put the situation in simple terms and "to try to make the family agree with us." Muraskas, who served as the girls' godfather, says Kenny Lakeberg's drug problems and the nature of the family entered into his thinking: "You have to ask yourself if chain-smoking parents in a trailer park is the most conducive environment for a sick child." O'Neill feels strongly that such considerations have no bearing on the decision...
...instead of the normal four, with a hole in one chamber and blood from the lungs pumping into the wrong side. The doctors recommended to the Lakebergs that Amy and Angela be allowed to die. "We sort of pleaded with them to take the babies off the ventilator," says neonatologist Dr. Jonathan Muraskas at Loyola University Medical Center in suburban Chicago, who tended the twins from their birth and agonized for weeks before deciding that intervention was futile. "Let's feed them and keep them warm. Let's put them in God's hands, so to speak...