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TimingPnomh Penh 22.10 After a protracted delivery and some unexpected hesitancy after the cord is deftly cut by the obstetrician, Achariya draws her first breath under the glare of the maternity theatre lamp. Lusaka 17.10 Had her parents delayed leaving the village any longer (the temporary crepuscular defervescence having been falsely reassuring), Mary’s outcome (and ‘the lab had never seen such a high degree of parasitaemia’ said the paediatrician while coupling the artemether), might have been very different. Asuncion 11.10 The surgeon, calm, her operating theatre embalmed in the soothing Guarania melodies, stood back, satisfied that Pilar’s femoral fracture was aligned, the haemorrhage stifled. Purple haze? It’s almost as if we’re back in the immediate post war years when billboards entreated the public to smoke. Why? Well, obviously tobacco made you a more attractive, sophisticated person. Even when Doll and Peto’s...
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tags: Highlights from this issue Source Type: research