After The Icu

A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D.

This is a gripping medical narrative that brings readers into the complex world of newborn intensive care, where brilliant but imperfect doctors do all they can to coax life into their tiny, injured patients. Dr. Adam Wolfberg–journalist, physician specializing in high-risk pregnancies, and father to a child born weighing under two pounds–describes his daughter Larissa's precipitous birth at six months, which left her tenuously hanging on to life in an incubator.