Brown writes about teenagers with cancer attending a special prom, the transition of a 1-year-old girl who was born deaf transition to the hearing world, the anxiety and stress suffered by many of the 5,700 people offered testing for hepatitis C after health officials discovered they may have been exposed to the disease, and outrage over how women are treated in the individual health insurance market.
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