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Series: Hearing Voices from NPR
Episode: Caregiver- Taking Care, Taking Heart (#024)
Host: Dmae Roberts- Stories1st.org
Summary: "Bad Teeth at King Drew Dental Clinic" by Ayala Ben-Yehuda: the Dental Divide, South L.A.'s clinic of last resort. "The Breast Cancer Monologues- Three Woman" by Dmae Roberts: surviving breast cancer, perspectives of a Chicana, African America and Romanian immigrant. "A Square Meal, Regardless" by Jennifer Nathan: Two old friends caring for each other into old age. "Dialysis" by Joe Frank: kidney failure and a friend indeed. "Hospice Chronicles" (excerpt) by Long Haul Productions: Volunteer Bettie's first patient. "The Person I Admire Most" by Jake Warga: A day with Jenafir in Ethiopia, trying to save the world.
0:15 On-Air Promo Text: This week on Hearing Voices from NPR, Caregiver: Taking Care, Taking Heart. Stories of minding the health of loved ones, and of strangers. That's Hearing Voices, AIRTIME on STATION.