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Newborn's Shot Delayed
Eleven-day-old Gwen Biesenbach died in 2023 after bleeding from her umbilical cord; her parents had declined the newborn vitamin K shot and used oral drops instead. A Texas medical board later found that emergency-room physician Nicole Malouf failed to recognize Gwen’s life-threatening vitamin K deficiency bleeding and transfer her promptly to a pediatric hospital, and ordered her to complete 24 hours of continuing medical education. An autopsy listed vitamin K deficiency bleeding as Gwen’s cause of death.
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