Chapter 14

The Lasker Award ceremony was held on a Friday in September, in a sunlit hall at the New York Academy of Medicine. I was adjusting Vera's tiny dress in the greenroom when Torres burst in — a habit at this point — with tears on his face. "NORA!" I nearly dropped the diaper bag. "What now?" He couldn't speak. He just held up his phone. The Lasker Foundation's official announcement: "The 2025 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award is presented to Captain Nora Sinclair, MD, for...