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Posted on March 7, 2016December 31, 2018

Attending to emergency complications

Everything I have learned so far about how a hospital or our healthcare system works could not equip me for the moment when the doctor said, “You need emergency surgery. We can do it today. You don’t have any other medical conditions, right?”.

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