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Chapter 20 - THE BABY’S INJURY

Owen’s doctors remained careful.

Placental pathology supported abruption.

Could they prove Ryan’s specific act caused it?

No.

Trauma increases risk.

Physical struggle and fall were temporally associated.

That was medically relevant.

Not mathematical causation.

Owen showed no major brain injury on imaging.

He had prematurity-related feeding difficulties and respiratory distress.

Follow-up would continue for years.

I wanted a doctor to say:

Ryan did this.

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Medicine would not.

I learned to tolerate uncertainty without treating it like acquittal.

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