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Stefan Kertesz

Stefan G. Kertesz is a physician with the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program. He will marry his sweetheart, Alice, in New Orleans in November.

— From September 2000
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Caring On Block Two

The young woman lying in the grass in front of Block Two was evidently a problem, but it was hard for me to tell how much of one, or whether I, as a doctor, was supposed to respond. She appeared to be asleep, like some of the other patients who had vacated their mangy hospital beds in order to stretch out on the grass and absorb the warm Nairobi sun. But in her case, something had clearly gone wrong.

September 2000
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