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Milagros is a 50-year-old Puerto Rican woman whose family I met while over the course of 3 months volunteering at a family medicine clinic in South Bronx. She was accompanied by her two teenage daughters, Amparo, 18, and Beatriz, 13, and her grandson Alberto. She had been widowed 8 years ago and had only got insurance because of Medicaid expansion. She suffered from uncontrolled diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and HIV.
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Occil, E. (2019). Fatalismo. In: Perzynski, A., Shick, S., Adebambo, I. (eds) Health Disparities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12771-8_43
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