‘What’s your pain right now?’ Sickle cell, loss, and survival in America
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NOVEMBER 10, 2024
ST. LOUIS — All morning, nurses had been coming in, taking vitals, offering blankets, pressing buttons to silence alarms. It would stay quiet for a bit, but then the beeping would start again, telling Tammy Clemons over and over that she was back in the emergency room. She wished she were elsewhere. She wished she were with her sister, who’d just had a stillborn baby in a different hospital, three miles away.
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