ons that I learned by this life-learning experience is that it is important for everyone in America to have quick access to a state-of-the-art hospital or some other high quality medical care facility. A medical facility must be able to provide the kind of care that a seriously ill patient needs. In this instance, an infant needed to be treated by a special infant care unit, and the nearest hospital did not have such a unit. Therefore, the infant did not have ready access to the kind of medical facility that he needed for urgent treatment. The proper medical facility can save a person's life, and, thus, I now understand that the quality of the medical facilities, and the quality of the health care which those facilities provide, is one of the important issues facing the American people today.
One important concept that I learned from facing this recent family crisis is that, when a loved one becomes seriously ill, the love
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