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Jodi Creasap Gee and her family were getting settled after their move to the Cleveland area when her daughter came into the kitchen screaming with a cut on her foot, WOSU reports. “There was just a trail of blood behind her. Her foot’s all bloody and I’m going, ‘oh no.’ I don’t even know where […]
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When 80-year-old “bowling queen” Kathleen DeRosa went to her doctor’s office, she was in the middle of her season with the Guys & Dolls League and her throwing shoulder was hurting her. She had seen her physician previously for a bowling injury and received a cortisone shot that cost a $10-copay, The Philadelphia Inquirer writes. […]
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As rural hospitals across the country close, patients have had to find an alternative plan for their treatments, Kaiser Health News reports. Karen Endicott-Coyan, a 65 year-old woman with multiple myeloma, has to drive an hour from her home in Kansas to seek treatment. In 2018, Mercy Hospital Fort Scott faced possible closure and the […]
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