The pace is feverish, the stakes are high. CBS 2 News takes you on a journey of life's triumphs and defeats. The patients you're about to meet are among the most delicate and vulnerable. Their cries fill one corner of the Martin Luther King-Drew Medical Center.
Preemies are premature babies who are born too soon.
And these babies' lifelines are the doctors and nurses who work in the neonatal intensive care unit. Dr. Xylina Bean and Dr. Medaro Supnet are neonatologists. But instead their premature bodies struggle to survive in isolettes, attached to monitors, tubes and probes. Baby Martinez is only four days old. He was born two months before his due date.