José is a new kind of health worker. He has no medical training; his skills are language and logistics. His job is to connect sick, impoverished Guatemalans with the care they need.
When he meets Crecencia, a mother of seven with late-stage cervical cancer, he faces a daunting question. The price tag to treat her disease is almost $10,000. And at best, it will buy only a few years of life. That money could instead fund a thousand pap smears — a cost-effective way of catching cancer before it’s too late.
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