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Editorial The American Surgeon 2023, Vol. 0(0) 1–2 © The Author(s) 2023 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/00031348231175136 journals.sagepub.com/home/asu 1,2 Ankoor A. Talwar, MBA When I first met Esteban in the lobby of our medical coyotes—people who smuggle immigrants across the center, I saw a short, unassuming, Hispanic man, adrift border. They climbed over the fence. Once on the other amongst the sea of people trying to get to the radiology side, the group walked 4 hours to a pickup car in the suite, or to their clinics, or to the cafeteria to beat the desert. Carefully avoiding border patrol, the car drove lunchtime traffic. them to Tucson, where Esteban took a train to Phoenix. I walked up to him and introduced myself. As his From there he took a one-way flight to Philadelphia. patient navigator in our Center for Surgical Health, I I stood bewildered. Never before had I heard a first- helped him get emergency medical insurance and would hand account of crossing the U.S.-Mexican border. It was be accompanying him through his care. He did not im- a treacherous passage, especially for a child alone, all mediately reciprocate this warmth, instead reticently done in hopes for
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Published: Dec 1, 2023
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