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Avoiding doctors? Price of that decision may surprise you

An angry-looking blemish is found to be MRSA (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus). Odd back pain reveals pancreatic cancer. A nagging virus or bacterial infection then morphs into life-threatening sepsis.

Pain, empathy and a girl’s gift

When 11-year-old Mackenzi Moers receives an intravenous blood product designed to boost her fragile immune system –– every three weeks her condition, called hypogammaglobulinemia, requires her to undergo a taxing six-hour regimen that supplies her with antibodies to help fight infection –– she is troubled by what she sees.