Summary Of The Dead Baby Mystery Gawande

In his, essay, "The Dead Baby Mystery," Gawande mentions a child abuse court case that involves the deaths of eight children of Marie Noe that no one could explain. As an example to what no one could explain the deaths, Gawande writes, "some of the most respected pathologists of the time, could find no explanation for the crib deaths" (202) and "Foul play was strongly considered, but no evidence was found" (202). (2 PVM). With the use of these quotes in his essay, Gawande presents a broader sense that cases, like Marie Noe, for child abuse do not have an easy outcome in determining the guilty. Even three decades later — Marie Noe's case was reopened, and the judged charged her — one of the officials wrote back to Gawande stating "that there

As his story goes, It was his daughter that had a bad injury that that was from a fall. Gawande explains it as "her right arm bent midway between the elbow and the wrist like an extra joint" (205). What he has written, her sibling pushed her that broke her arm. Gawande had to take her to the hospital, where the social factors came in to play.
Arriving at the hospital, he wrote the experience with the people there saying, "I was grilled by three different people asking me over and over again" (205). This, from what he has written, shows that people jump to conclusions that he did an abuse to his daughter. Furthermore, to go along with that, he also writes "I knew that all too well it was a suspicious story"(205). Gawande knew that his alone words would not be enough to be believable, as he brought his daughter to the doctors, as Gawande would do if a brought in by parents child had injuries, they did all to check

He knows, and other doctors try to avoid this action, that he should avoid the profiling of people to determine abuse, but when statistics show as he writes, "single parents have almost double the risk of abuse, poor families sixteen times the likelihood" (206). Of what has Gawande written, he explains that is how profiling people would happen based on the facts are given to determine the outcome, and perhaps how the example of Marie Noe's, her social factor had affected the case.
Looking at her case, Gawande assessed the factors of the person Marie Noe is. He assesses her by saying "she was married, middle-class, and respectable," which may have per her in a different outcome of how the court perceived her. Gawande, knowing this, a profile is not how the evidence would be the determining factor of any outcome of the case, but he knows that profiling will happen because of the statistical facts.
What Gawande wrote of all of this, Gawande reasons that the social factors may affect how the outcome is, thus, another reason that child case is difficult to prove who did