Kristie McNealy, MD

Today, for Prematurity Awareness Month and Medical Monday, I’d like to share a personal rant.
Each October, stores are flooded with pink ribbon merchandise.  Newspapers, magazines, websites, even grocery store ads, manage to “think pink.”  According to the National Cancer Institute, 12.7% of women, or 1 in 8, will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their [...]

I’ve written about it so many times, I don’t know what I’ve said and what I haven’t anymore.  But, today is Prematurity Awareness Day, and I HAVE to say something.
Prematurity has cast it’s shadow on my life more than once.  The first time I was just a girl.  My aunt and uncle had a little [...]

Tonight, Grey’s Anatomy (Hello, my name is Kristie, and I’m a Grey’s Anatomy addict…) opened with a baby being delivered 10 weeks premature by emergency c-section. Mom had been in an auto accident, and both mom and baby had bleeding on their brains.
When the baby is failing, and her death seems imminent, Karev picks [...]