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The Greatest Hospitality Story Ever

by Adam Reiner June 13, 2023June 13, 2023

While my uncle was dying from a rare cancer, he found solace in a hotel whose staff became a surrogate family.

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Waiting at a Texas Hospital for Children Who Never Arrive

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands June 2, 2022October 19, 2022

A heartbreaking account from a doctor in the children’s trauma center of a San Antonio, Texas, hospital recounting the day they waited for an influx of children, injured in a school shooting 85 miles away in Uvalde. But the kids never came. We wanted to have never heard of them, for them to never need […]

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Sent Home to Die

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 3, 2020October 19, 2022

In New Orleans, hospitals sent infected COVID patients into hospice facilities or back home to die — to family members untrained and unprepared to care for them — and in some cases discontinuing treatment against the family’s wishes.

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The Police Tried to Make Me Medically Examine a Man Against His Will

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands July 21, 2020October 19, 2022

On racism in medicine, body autonomy, and one Black doctor’s experience in the ER.

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