On April 21, a 10-year-old girl and her mother walked into the Trinidad Maternity and Children’s Hospital in Asunción, Paraguay. The girl (whose name has been withheld) complained of sharp pains in her stomach, which appeared visibly swollen. Worried her daughter might have a tumor, the girl’s mother asked doctors to examine her. What they […]
Author: Erica Hellerstein
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