Opinion: My son will be fine, she told the doctors, because he is the Lord God Jesus Christ
Medical parables are day-to-day stories passed down from doctor to doctor across an operating table, between seeing patients on rounds, or while changing into scrubs in the locker room. Through humor, sarcasm, and sometime grisly recountings, these stories pass along information and culture not found in any textbook.
Sometimes the message is clear and obvious; other times the lesson lurks below the surface, dull now but ready to gleam with the right context.
A good friend who runs a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) in a Boston-area hospital once told me a story that later blossomed into a parable for me when I spent a week on a medical mission in the Dominican Republic.
A young boy was admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit because he was having trouble breathing. Caring for a child in the PICU also means caring for his or her parents and understanding the enormous stress they experience seeing their
