Parents of a four-year-old battling a rare form of cancer reflect on how polished their doctor was giving them heartbreaking news. A transgender male explains how he felt stigmatized by the health-care system when looking for help. A daughter brings her ailing mother home to die. And a nurse practitioner with a positive outlook visits inner-city patients.
These are some of the personal accounts profiled on the website Faces of Health Care, a recent initiative that seeks to bring the human face back into the health policy picture.
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