At birth, S.D. weighed 3019g, was 49 cm long, and had a head circumference of 36 cm—all appropriate for gestational age. Routine plotting on astandard growth curve chart for newborn males revealedthat he was at the 50th percentile for weight and head cir-cumference, and at the 25th ...
Nonetheless, Seyfer, who spent 11 years as a Walter Reed Army Hospital surgeon, wanted to help. And so he scheduled Sam for surgery in June 1998. A month before he asked a friend, the chairman of the plastic-surgery department at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, to join him. A week...