Do no harm

Nora Boström died in a hospital room, her arms clenched around her mother's neck, on November 22, 2013. It was 22 days before her fourth birthday. Nora had blonde, curly hair and a big laugh, and seemed to hate wearing pants — pictures of her as a toddler show her wiggling right out of them. Nora was also born prematurely with underdeveloped lungs. A few months before her third birthday, she underwent a small surgical procedure that placed a thin, snakelike tube running through her chest to her heart. Doctors used it to pump medicine into her bloodstream that would help her lungs grow.