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Ordering tests may take food out of the mouths of our patients

Sitting in an exam room I am watching my patient struggling to ask a difficult question that she clearly does not want to ask. After several attempts at starting and a few half finished sentences she finally manages to mumble…

Sitting in an exam room I am watching my patient struggling to ask a difficult question that she clearly does not want to ask.

After several attempts at starting and a few half finished sentences she finally manages to mumble a request for help with obtaining food for herself and her two daughters. She is a 41-year-old woman, 32 weeks pregnant with her third child, and …

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Ordering tests may take food out of the mouths of our patients