Baby Girl

"I was placed for adoption by my teenage birth parents during a time when closed adoptions were still commonplace. Each year on my adoption day, my adoptive mother would tell me the story of how I came into their lives. The story grew in detail as I aged and was interrupted by more questions. I learned that I was briefly in foster care during a sta

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An adoptee cuddles a baby on her pediatrics rotation, and reimagines how clinicians might use the electronic medical record to communicate love to/for/about their patients.