patients

Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control of her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate.

After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun, but the members of her dysfunctional family make it difficult.

Beth Maloney describes how she, with the help of two cutting-edge doctors, helped her son Sammy, who had been diagnosed with OCD and Tourette syndrome, overcome his mental illness and return to normal life.

Andie Dominick discusses her and her sister's lives as diabetics from childhood.

Mrs. Curren, a dying professor in Cape Town, South Africa has been insulated from the brutality of apartheid but now is forced to come to terms with the iron-hearted rage that the system has wrought.