Fixing Health Care from the Inside, Today
LAST YEAR ON CHRISTMAS DAY, a 32-year-old Belgian woman celebrated the birth of a healthy daughter. Nothing remarkable about that, you might say, except that seven years prior, this same woman had been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Because doctors feared that chemotherapy would leave her infertile, they surgically removed, froze, and stored her ovaries. Once her treatment was concluded, with her cancer sufficiently in remission, they thawed the tissue and returned it to her abdomen, after which she was able to conceive and deliver.
Such medical miracles—improvements in fertility treatment, cancer cures, cardiac care, and AIDS management among them—are becoming so commonplace that ...
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