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Literature

Hot Take: Health Care Copays are Placing Our Inmates at Risk

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Hot Take: Health Care Copays are Placing Our Inmates at Risk

Hebron Kelecha – Class of 2021

Imagine you work in the kitchen of a correctional facility and your copay for a doctors’ visit costs $5. However, you make a whopping 33 cents an hour.

That is the reality faced by many who are incarcerated in prisons throughout the United States. It is not surprising that most of our prison population is poor when they enter the prison system. Couple this with jobs that pay less than a dollar an hour and fees for accessing health care, and we are laying the foundation for negative health outcomes.

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Literature

The Tumor Board

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The Tumor Board

Ben Harstine, M3, Class of 2021

Round the table
 Sit one by one
 We talk, we vote
 Another decision done.
 Sixty-five and sick
 Tumor load too large
  
 Surgery? No.
 Chemo? No.
 Radiation No.
 It must be time to go on.
  
 Next.
  
 Eighty-seven
 A tumor again
 One more shot
 Hope not lost,
 Decisions begin
Narrative

Austin Martin, Class of 2022

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Each story is unique, intimate, and powerful. Readers, please come open-minded and ready to engage with the following stories. More importantly, be ready to interface with an intimate space and allow yourself to step inside someone else’s life. The following is the narrative of Austin Martin, a second-year medical student at KUMC.

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Narrative

Lauren Zeller, Class of 2022

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Each story is unique, intimate, and powerful. Readers, please come open-minded and ready to engage with the following stories. More importantly, be ready to interface with an intimate space and allow yourself to step inside someone else’s life. The following is the narrative of Lauren Zeller, a second-year medical student at KUMC.

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