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How one doctor breaks the worst news possible to parents

An essay by Dr. Naomi Rosenberg, which first appeared in the New York Times Sunday Review.
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Dr. Naomi Rosenberg is an emergency room doctor at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. 

Her essay "How to Tell a Mother her Child is Dead" appeared in the New York Times Sunday Review in September, 2016. 

An edited version is included in our program this week, read by producer Dawna Dingwall. This is the complete essay.