These lines connect
children and physicians,
programs and
departments, clinics
and labs. They stretch
between unborn babies
and adults, between the
diodes of a circuit board,
between colleagues in a
hallway, between flesh
and code. They measure
what’s never been
measured. They both set
and alter our course.
And if we’ve done our jobs
right, they outgrow us.
The work in this book is
far from complete. And
just as it reaches upward
and forward, like the
years and years of work
it builds on, it lays a
foundation: for the future
of our field, and of our
patients’ lives.
NEW CONSTELLATIONS
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