Eight doctors struggle to save a dying baby—until a ragged boy points to the child’s neck and says something no one dares believe

born three weeks early, which put her in the category of premature but viable, the category that carried cautious optimism rather than crisis — she had good weight, good reflexes, lungs that were working harder than full-term lungs would have needed to but working nonetheless. The neonatologist on call at the birth, a woman named Dr. Halvorsen who continue reading …