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Being Human: The Preexisting Condition of Disease

As a medical oncologist of almost 20 years, I’ve seen my share of patient-blaming stigma. People are indicted for their cancers in various ways: “They ate too much sugar.” “They were obese.” “They were a smoker.” “It runs in their family.” I find the current culture of attributing severe COVID-19 illness and deaths to “preexisting conditions”…

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