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© 2020 by Danielle Ofri

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Text design and composition by Kim Arney

Names and identities of patients and their families have been changed, unless permission was explicitly granted. The names of the medical staff and the children in Jay’s story are pseudonyms.

Several brief sections of this book originally appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, the New York Times, Slate, and the Lancet.

Library of Congress Cataloging number 2019051595

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file.
eISBN: 978-0-8070-3789-8