After delivering a baby for a lonely mother, the doctor looked at the newborn’s face and dropped his instruments in shock. He stared into the baby’s distinct amber eyes and whispered, “where is the woman who brought you here?” The mother pointed to her bag, revealing an old photograph that solved a twenty-year-old mystery…

surgical mask resting around his neck.

In this sprawling hospital just outside of Nashville, Tennessee, nurses were decidedly not accustomed to seeing Dr. Robert Wright weep. He was universally revered as the calmest, most unflappable physician on the entire maternity ward. This was a man who had successfully delivered breeches during rolling brownouts,continue reading …