the rumor mill, part deux

I hear today that perhaps the rumors of Judith's death were premature; I
certainly hope so. It made me think about how often I don't really get
follow-up on a lot of the patients that I see; because they live in
rural areas, many times the parents or family won't bring them back to
the hospital if we've told them it's an incurable illness. So then we
only hear through the grapevine that 'that child with X died' from
someone passing through. And with the way communications sometimes work
at Mukinge, even that information might be garbled or not passed on at
all. Anyway, I hope that she's doing fine.