Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Two remarkable familiesIn summer 2016, 9-year-old Max developed serious heart problems.On 30 July 2017, 9-year-old Keira died in a car accident.Rachel Clarke tells the story of Keira's heart, which beats on today in Max's body.It is, of course, a tragic story.A beautiful, vivacious, perfectly healthy and adored daughter and sister is in the wrong place -a known accident black spot -at the wrong time.Fatally wounded and likely brain dead, she is transported by road to a nearby hospital as she is too sick to travel farther.Her mother and brother, with multiple fractures and internal injuries, respectively, are airlifted to a regional trauma centre; her two sisters, miraculously, are away at a sleepover.Keira's father, away on a motorcycling weekend, learns the news when he stops for fuel and makes a desperate, sickening pilgrimage across country to begin reuniting his broken family.
Author: Trisha Greenhalgh
Institution: University of Oxford
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4403928121