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a very malnourished baby who was abandoned by his mother and then brought to JFK hospital; I was the first white person he had ever seen
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a boy with significant developmental disabilities who had been abandoned by his family and had been living at the hospital for a couple of years
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a boy who had an inoperable eye tumor; unfortunately chemotherapy was not available at the hospital
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one of a number of babies who had neonatal tetanus, an almost fatal disease that newborns who are born in unsterile environments to mothers who have not gotten tetanus vaccine
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the woman sitting in the center ran a restaurant on the hospital grounds; in one of those "small world" events, she turned out to be the grandmother of a patient I was taking care of in Massachusetts!
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looking toward the ocean, you can see trash dumped at the end of the street and in the foreground, a house has a bucket on the balcony to collect rainwater because there was no running water
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a painting outside the pediatric ward illustrating the tears that so many people shed during the long civil war