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At the end of our clinic meeting, one of the doctors announced that she was taking up a collection. Not the usual someone's-getting-married, someone's-having-a-baby, someone's-leaving collection; this one was for the family of a child with many serious medical problems, who had died in the hospital a day or two earlier. Most of the clinic's doctors and nurses had known the child and the family, always coming in with questions and concerns, with that long problem list, with that complicated and ever-changing set of medications. The collection was to help the family pay for the funeral, the doctor said, because . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Klass is a professor of journalism and pediatrics at New York University, New York.

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