Sometimes desperation overrides a focus on insurance information. Health Affairs Deputy Editor Philip Musgrove shared his tale of just such an experience on NPR this week. The radio segment was excerpted from an essay originally published in the Narrative Matters section of Health Affairs.

The current issue of Health Affairs features Narrative Matters essays by Chinese and Indian authors. Best-selling author and transplant surgeon Pauline Chen writes on her family’s experience with immigrating from Taiwan to the United States. Oncologist Alok Khorana writes how personal, cultural, and medical values jostle one another in the story of his first night on call at a hospital in New York after arriving from India three weeks into the start of his residency.

Narrative Matters, which features personal experience essays on topics of health policy concern, is supported by a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

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