I Was a Pediatric Surgeon — Then One Surgery Changed My Entire Life
I was a pediatric surgeon, scheduled one morning for a high-risk heart surgery on a six-year-old boy named Owen. He was painfully thin, with huge, frightened eyes. His congenital defect had stolen most of his childhood before it ever began. I reassured his parents, performed the long operation, and succeeded. “He made it,” I told … Read more