Health Affairs, 23, no. 5 (2004): 237-239
doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.23.5.237
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It is 1980. I am standing in a phone booth on a hill outside the Dairy Queen in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. My nine-year-old daughter Franny is squeezed inside the booth beside me, clutching my waist, her pigtails undone and falling apart. We are both weeping. I am calling my husband, who is at home more than a hundred and fifty miles away with our other children. We’ve come to the Dairy Queen phone booth from the clinic at Carrie Tingley Hospital just up the road. There, our three-year-old son Nick is lying in a large metal crib, his . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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