More hospital doctors bring parents into the loop

Published June 4, 2008 4:00am ET



Buffy Freeland had just gotten her 6-month-old daughter Desiah to sleep when a squad of doctors, students and interns gathered in the darkened hospital room.

She listened intently as they discussed Desiah?s problems breathing, reviewed X-rays of enlarged lungs struggling for air and considered possible treatments.

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