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“The truth is," I say, "he's having my baby. It's a medical miracle. Someone call the newspapers.”

— Laura Ruby

I quit my day job the day my daughter was born. I remember flying to Cleveland and hitting a thunderstorm, which caused the plane…

— J. B. Smoove

The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to…

— Charlie Sheen

“I don't think you can be a physician and not see yourself reflected in your patient's illness. How would I deal with the kind…

— Abraham Verghese

For the first few months, I was a comically inept parent. The first night home from the hospital, I held her bare body against…

— Nick Flynn

“ Latro, California: "Terrible diarrhea, Doctor, and I feel so weak!" "Take these pills and come back in three days if you're not better."…

— John Brunner

My son John was just under a year old when I collapsed with a life-threatening kidney disease. The shame and guilt resulting from my…

— Mary Manin Morrissey

“If I, the daughter of a physician, had been prepared for the medical side of pregnancy and childbirth, I was completely dumbfounded by this…

— Ree Drummond

My father's mother, my Grandmother Young, was said by the family to have talked herself to death. Convalescing from a fever, she had defied…

— Stark Young

Here was a period where I was particularly attacked, and in untrue ways, some people online said some things that were not true about…

— David Plotz

I was on stage last night, and I gave a medical report about Donald Trump. I said he was hospitalized for an attack of…

— Mort Sahl

As a parent who is also a journalist, when I talk to the brother and the sister of a victim or the parent of…

— Chris Hansen