Summary
The story begins with an open wound.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Kind World from W-B-U-R-E-Lance. |
| 0:04.0 | Today's story starts with an open wound. |
| 0:07.0 | I wound both physical and emotional. |
| 0:09.0 | And it starts when Dr. Shiva Kiamambashi met Joe Nasworthy. |
| 0:13.7 | Joe was on his stomach. |
| 0:15.3 | He was lying prone on his belly |
| 0:18.0 | because he had a huge wound that almost |
| 0:20.8 | encompassed the entirety of his back. |
| 0:23.0 | Dr. Kay, as she's commonly known, |
| 0:25.0 | is a family physician at San Francisco General Hospital, |
| 0:28.0 | a county hospital for underserved and often uninsured patients. |
| 0:32.0 | Joe had just had several huge malignant melanomas excised from his back. |
| 0:37.0 | The skin cancer spots had gotten so big because he couldn't see them. |
| 0:41.0 | And because he didn't have anyone in his life who would have |
| 0:43.7 | noticed them. |
| 0:44.7 | As soon as I crouched down and introduced myself, he just, in a way that I didn't expect, |
| 0:49.7 | lit up as though he knew me and smiled, |
| 0:52.8 | hi Dr. Kianbashi. |
| 0:54.9 | I was very surprised and taken aback |
| 0:56.7 | by that kind energy about him. |
| 1:00.0 | Dr. Kay was struck by the fact that Joe never |
| 1:02.4 | complained about being sick. |
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