High surgical death rate found for children at FL hospital

She was only 7 weeks old, weighed a mere 10 pounds, and had just had delicate surgery to widen a narrowing in her aorta, the vessel that carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body. If that wasn't enough, after the surgery, Layla McCarthy stopped moving her legs. The doctors couldn't explain why. Terrified she might never walk, Layla's mother, Christine McCarthy, sought solace from family and friends. A stranger overhead them talking in an elevator at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida. "Do you know a child with a heart problem here?" asked the stranger.