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Essay: Break the Silence

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The author recounts major personal and moral tensions that arose during an 11-month period living in Ghana and shares how she has since learned to reconcile those tensions.

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  1. University of Washington Internal Medicine Residency Program, 424 Belmont Ave. E, Apt. 204, Seattle, WA, 98102, USA

    N. Abedini

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This essay is a non-peer reviewed republication of an entry submitted to the 2014 Consortium of Universities for Global Health essay contest, for which an honorable mention was received. This essay also appears in the forthcoming publication Reflections in Global Health: An Anthology (2nd edition), edited by T. Bui, J. Evert, V. McCarthy, I. Asokan, A. Mehta, K. Miller, C. Tsai, and S. Wen and published by the Global Health Collaborations Press.

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Abedini, N. Essay: Break the Silence. Bioethical Inquiry 12, 95–96 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-015-9616-x

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