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I groan when I catch sight of her name on the patient roster. Nazma Uddin. Not again! She is in my clinic office almost every month. I dread her visits, and today is no exception. A small, plump woman, Mrs. Uddin is cloaked in robe, head scarf, and veil, all opaque blue polyester. Only her eyes peer out from the sea of dark blue. She is trailed, as usual, by her 11-year-old daughter Azina, who wears a light-green gown with a flowered head scarf pinned under her chin but no veil covering her solemn, bespectacled face.

Mrs. Uddin flops into . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital, New York.

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