The Night Shift at St. Luke's

Dr. Amara Osei had delivered over three thousand babies in her twenty-two years at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City. She thought she understood birth. Then, at fifty-four, she sat in a back pew at her daughter's church on a Wednesday night, and a pastor's words cracked something open she didn't know was sealed shut. "You can study the anatomy of new life your entire career," she told a friend afterward, "and still not understand what it feels like to become new yourself."…