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This article appears in Spring Arts Annual 2020.


We need to make all the hospitals accountable for everything. The political and monetary control a few bad seeds have. Recently taking a board Certified Spine Sergion away from the local people on Cencal . This is those of us in the service industry, ranch hands , and farm workers all the rich people use and discard instead of letting them get the surgery they need. Help me tell this story it is deep and tall. April