Letter to my nephew – managing that sickle cell Dear Tei, Visiting you in the hospital brought back memories of my being struck down with a painful sickle cell crisis during a short training course in Tehran in the mid-1970s. Tehran is supposed to be the fount of modern medicine, but because the doctor spoke […]
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