We Do All This for Babies

About the Book

This book is a compilation of monthly medical articles written for the Farmville, North Carolina, weekly newspaper. It’s a mixture of stories from my early life, from medical school and residency, anecdotes about unusual cases, descriptions of misguided medicine, travel (France, Bolivia, Iran, Sudan, Denmark and Honduras), and essays about pandemics.

About the Author

Dr. Robertson began medicine in 1953 at the University of Virginia. His pediatric and biochemical training was at the University of Michigan. In 1965 he established the Section of Neonatology at the Ohio State University. He was appointed chairman of pediatrics at the Medical College of Georgia in 1971 and moved to the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University in 1989. Since 2002 he has worked as a volunteer at the Kate B. Reynolds Pediatric Clinic in Snow Hill, North Carolina. He and his wife, Etsil Mason, live in the friendly small town of Farmville, North Carolina.