Preventing disease makes cure unnecessary

Preventing disease makes cure unnecessary
Preventing disease makes cure unnecessary

Let’s call her Sarah, although that wasn’t her name. I’d had the privilege of delivering her, and the fun of watching her grow into a precocious toddler, with an impish smile and a joyous laugh. Then I had the responsibility of explaining her autopsy report to her devastated parents.

She’d died from an infection that her young, previously healthy body just couldn’t fight. It hadn’t taken long; she’…