superheroes
On any given week, the halls of New York City’s Javits Center might belong to comic-book devotees dressed as superheroes, carmakers unveiling their newest models, or dog lovers sizing up dozens of breeds.Then the booths come down, the floors are cleaned, and the sprawling, 3.4 million-square-foot Manhattan convention center starts…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Leandro Brandão Guimarães. It has been edited for length and clarity.When I first started operating on children as a pediatric ear, nose, and throat doctor 15 years ago, I remember personally struggling watching children enter the operating room with me. They…
