I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.
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I was stunned to learn that more than 200,000 abandoned, neglected, or orphaned children had been sent from the East Coast to the Midwest on trains between 1854 and 1929.
It's hard to know which made me more aware of the impossibility of protecting children - having a child die or having had two live.
My mother had had six children in five and a half years, and three of them died in that time.
My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive.
It's maddening in my travels to watch children dying simply because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time.
In large part, thanks to widespread immunization, the number of young children dying each year has declined significantly, from approximately 14 million in 1979 to slightly less than eight million in 2010.
Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.
My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.
I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.
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