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The Moral Dilemma of Learning Medicine from the Poor
When I was a medical student, some of my free-clinic patients died of treatable conditions. The clinic was in Southeast...
Rachel Pearson, MD, Ph.D, is a physician and medical humanities researcher whose writing has appeared in Scientific American, Texas Monthly, the Guardian, The Daily Beast and elsewhere. Her new book No Apparent Distress is available from WW Norton.
When I was a medical student, some of my free-clinic patients died of treatable conditions. The clinic was in Southeast...