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When the Chatbot Became Her Confidant
CW: Suicide, Epilepsy, & Death Qun Wan was worried about his 31-year-old daughter, Bowen Wan. Wan told her father that she had been tapering off her seizure medication, taking only a quarter of her prescribed dose. She said the medication caused her speech to sound stilted and impaired her cognition. Suddenly, they were in the…
The Cruel Math of Saving While Disabled
CW: Poverty Julia Feinberg lives with spinal muscular atrophy. She works as a therapist in Oakland, California and relies on Medi-Cal to pay for in-home care 19 hours a day. After a decade of expansion, California is cutting Medi-Cal as part of broad federal and state cuts that experts estimate will remove coverage from more…
The Boys in the Science Club
CW: Abuse When Fred Boyce joined the Science Club at Fernald State School in Massachusetts in 1949, he wasn’t thinking much about science. There were all kinds of other perks. The boys could go to RedSox games and receive gifts including Mickey Mouse watches. The boys relished the attention and gifts. There were breakfasts too,…
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