S3E443 - MTM - Happy 250th Birthday America

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A patient looks you in the eye and says her last meal was roots she dug from the ground, boiled in water, and shared just to make it through the week. That single sentence can wreck your categories for poverty, health, and gratitude, and it becomes the doorway to a bigger July 4th reflection from me, a country doctor who has seen both mission-field scarcity and American abundance.

I tell stories from Haiti that still stick with me: barefoot patients with infections, women going days without food, and a Bible conference...