Washington Post, DC
Barry Byer, a family practitioner, remembers the teenager because he came to the medical field clinic in La Ceiba, Honduras, complaining of a respiratory infection.
U.S. medical workers visiting the city during a week-long aid mission were preparing to prescribe antibiotics for the 18-year-old when he pulled up his shirt to reveal a colostomy bag. Embarrassed, he pleaded, "Can you help me?"
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