When I was the chief of pediatrics at Aga Khan University hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, I spent a lot of time caring for the babies of new mothers suffering from preeclampsia. Too often, the babies were born too early and too small—and I couldn’t save them.
The hardest part about being a pediatrician is having to tell the parents their precious baby did not survive. The second hardest is not being able to explain why.
