Opinion: Q&A: Giving voice to patients navigating cancer, rare disease, and more

Health care is about many things — understanding and treating disease, practicing medicine, developing new drugs, inventing new medical devices. But at its core, it is about one thing only: the patients.

A STAT Report released Tuesday, “Patients speak out: learning about health care first-person,” brings those voices to readers in a collection of essays originally published as First Opinion columns. 

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