The Incubator
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#398 - Dr. Sheri Fink on the Ethics of Survival and Redefining Care for Trisomy 18
51 minutes Posted Feb 19, 2026 at 12:00 pm.
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Send a text Dr. Sheri Fink, Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Times and author of Five Days at Memorial, joins us for a compelling discussion on the ethics of survival. Dr. Fink, an MD-PhD, discusses her recent article "Noah is Still Here," which chronicles one family's journey with Trisomy 18—a condition once universally deemed incompatible with life. She and Eli explore the shifting paradigms of care, the tension between medical prognosis and parental hope, and the "two ...