Premature babies in incubators neonatal intensive care units make me nervous. My twin brother and I were preemies. As my mother tells it, the hospital mislabeled us, calling me Baby Boy Schulte and my brother Baby Girl Schulte. The mishap later became a family joke, but professionally, as a pediatrician, I know misnaming babies causes medical mistakes and puts an infant at risk. Infant weights change frequently, making medication dosing complicated and requiring frequent recalculation. In one year I caught five mistakes -- wrong...
↧