A mother, a doctor and healthy babies
Courtland Milloy, The Washington Post
Jan. 26, 2021
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In a cellphone video taken by her husband, Folasada Butler lays in a hospital bed after giving birth to twins. The doctor who delivered them, Lynne Lightfoote, holds a newborn in each arm. Butler and Lightfoote are wearing protective masks, but you can hear their muffled expressions of awe. Oh my God, they say, again and again.
That s how childbirth is supposed to be. A blessed event.
For too many women, though, it s a death sentence. Maternal and infant mortality rates in the United States are the highest among developed nations. And the racial disparities are stunning, with Black women three times more likely to die of pregnancy-related causes than White women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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To show her he was thinking of her, Leslie Kean’s brother sent her balloons. She woke up one morning and found three scarlet ones tangled in the tree outside her window.
She was astonished. The balloons themselves weren’t so remarkable; it was a few weeks after Valentine’s Day, after all. There was one unusual aspect to her brother’s gift, though: he was dead.
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Thomas L Perry, MD died December 4, 2020 at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle, of complications following heart surgery.
Born in Virginia February 22, 1942, Tom attended the University of North Carolina. At the end of his junior year, he applied to and was accepted into the University of Virginia Medical School. Following graduation from UVA, Tom served in Vietnam as a captain in the United States Air Force, after which he moved to Seattle to complete his internship and residency. After practicing for a short time in Walla Walla, Tom moved to Yakima where he established his own dermatology practice and settled to raise his family.