I finally got my mother into a clinical trial after her cancer came back, but they want to exclude her because she only speaks Spanish and I am furious at myself for feeling grateful they are considering it at all.
More people experience this than they realize.
You are trapped between gratitude for any access to care and rage at a system that treats your mother's language as a burden rather than accommodating her basic human dignity.
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