I first remember meeting Mrs. Helen over a year ago. I was stopped at a traffic light when she tapped on the car window and motioned me to let her in. Once inside, she started telling me how I had treated her son when he was just nine months old, and severely ill with diarrhea.
	When Doose was born in 1989, his father, Dr. Jonathan Karshima, was in Evangel's physician training program. Soon after he was born, missionary doctor Bev Truxton discovered that he had a heart defect with a loud murmur. ...
	Joshua was born with a severe case of brittle bones, or osteogenesis imperfecta. Very early in life his arms and legs began breaking. Even with all possible precautions and medical attention, the bones broke again and again, causing pain each time, and soon Joshua's limbs were shrunken and nearly useless. He couldn't walk or crawl. ...
	I knew we'd made a mistake when we discharged Poring after his third full round of chemotherapy. I'd checked him in the morning, found him well, and told the uncle that the residents would discharge him when they came around. That night I realized that none of us had made a point of telling the uncle when to bring Poring back.