{"id":1984,"date":"2022-04-21T13:58:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T13:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2022-04-21T13:58:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T13:58:25","slug":"cameron-haight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/cameron-haight\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Haight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Kristy Wendt<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Surgery-Otolaryngology<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>2022<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Poem<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For two and a half centuries<br \/>\nthe prognosis for esophageal atresia<br \/>\nwas death by aspiration<\/p>\n<p>until a cold day<br \/>\nin the last week of winter,<\/p>\n<p>when a listless infant,<br \/>\ntwelve days old,<br \/>\nmouth bleeding,<br \/>\nwas referred to Cameron Haight,<\/p>\n<p>There wasn\u2019t much hope.<\/p>\n<p>in her stillness,<br \/>\nhe saw semblance to all the<br \/>\nchildren he had operated on<br \/>\nwith her condition,<br \/>\nfour failures,<br \/>\nand all the failures before her.<\/p>\n<p>He thought to wait.<\/p>\n<p>His nurses knew the work of resuscitation,<br \/>\nthe doing of it,<br \/>\nthe shoring up,<br \/>\nthe administration of sulfa drugs<br \/>\nwhich was all they had at the time<\/p>\n<p>Soon enough, her breath was steady,<br \/>\nher eyes bright,<br \/>\nand he operated.<br \/>\nIncision, closure.<br \/>\nEnd-to-end<\/p>\n<p>Two and a half centuries of death,<br \/>\nbut on this day<br \/>\nthe end of winter finally came<br \/>\nfor the procedure of waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristy Wendt School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Surgery-Otolaryngology 2022 Poem &nbsp; For two and a half centuries the prognosis for esophageal atresia was death by aspiration until a cold day in the last week of winter, when a listless infant, twelve days old, mouth bleeding, was referred to Cameron Haight, There wasn\u2019t&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/cameron-haight\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,10],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2022-issue","category-writing","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2022,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions\/2022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}