Your Hospital Is Not Telling You Everything About Pregnancy Complications
Let’s be honest. Most of us only hear about maternal health when someone dies. But here is what nobody is talking about. For every woman who dies from a pregnancy complication, between 50 and 100 women survive something terrifying. A hemorrhage. An ICU admission. Sepsis. Uterine rupture. Cardiorespiratory arrest. That is called severe maternal morbidity. […]
They Named the Spacecraft “Integrity,” A Note on Every Life We Carry
Four astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean after traveling 694,000 miles around the Moon. The mission was called Artemis II. The spacecraft they flew was named Integrity. I sat with that word for a while. Commander Reid Wiseman. Mission Specialist Christina Koch. Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen. Pilot Victor Glover. Each of […]