PALO ALTO, Calif. — Dr. William Benitz walked past the rows of clear plastic isolettes in the neonatal intensive care unit at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. There’s little room to navigate — the space is jam-packed with the beeping machines, ventilators and nurses, who can care for as many 70 fragile infants. One tiny pink baby here today was born weighing 13 ounces. “A can of coke is 12 oz. So imagine a baby who could almost curl up in a fetal position and fit inside a coke can,” explained Benitz, the hospital’s chief of neonatology. For Benitz, who first came to Stanford 42 years ago as a medical student, the ability of doctors today to save...
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