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US doctors alarmed over death rates in children following heart surgery

By Ellen Gabler
New York Times·
33 mins to read

Secret recordings captured physicians' concerns that more children seemed to fare poorly after heart surgery. Their hospital kept doing the operations. Ellen Gabler of The New York Times investigates.

Tasha and Thomas Jones sat beside their 2-year-old daughter as she lay in intensive care at North Carolina Children's Hospital. Skylar had just come out of heart surgery and should recover well, her parents were told. But that night, she flatlined. Doctors and nurses swarmed around her, performing chest compressions for

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