Word: quanquilla
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...half a dozen specialists for various complaints, the difficulties constitute a diabolical maze. Nor do many doctors reach out to make things easier. Most AIDS caseworkers with deaf clients can name one who was simply handed a piece of paper saying, "You have AIDS," with no follow- up. Quanquilla Mason, a deaf and blind New Yorker who has since died, remembered going into emergency surgery. "I was afraid," recalled Mason, "and the surgeon wasn't making any effort to explain to me what he was doing, and I was asking, 'Please let my interpreter come, please let her come explain...
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