{"id":269497,"date":"2022-06-07T14:42:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T19:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=269497"},"modified":"2022-06-06T21:28:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T02:28:18","slug":"former-nicu-patient-plans-return-nicu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/former-nicu-patient-plans-return-nicu\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NICU patient graduates medical school with plans to return to the NICU"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Twenty-seven years, ago Marcus Mosley was born prematurely at just 26 weeks. Last month, he graduated from the CUNY School of Medicine at City College of New York with plans to return to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) as a doctor specializing in infant care.<\/p>\n

“It was very frightening when he was born and they told me that he was in the NICU,” Mosley’s mother Pauline Mosley told Good Morning America<\/a>. “The doctors told me, they just kept giving me all these different percentages of very slim chance of him being normal, like less than 10% chance. They kept saying 90%, he might not be able to see. Eighty to 90%, he would have developmental delays. They didn’t know.”<\/p>\n

But Mosley defied the odds and thrived. When he was 13 years old, his parents brought him back to the NICU at Westchester Medical Center where he had spent the first 40 days of his life after birth. That visit would turn out to be a defining moment in his life. While there, Mosley met Dr. Edmund LaGamma, the chief of neonatology at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital at Westchester Medical Center. While in high school, Mosley called LaGamma to ask about participating in a shadowing program over the summer.<\/p>\n

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