A Piece of My Mind
Saachi
JAMA 10.1001/jama.2026.1515March 19, 2026 at 11:00 AM EDT
In this narrative medicine essay, a cardiologist struggles with an unsettling understanding of what counts as the loss of a child and what does not based on an arbitrary timeline of gestational age.
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