Medicine: The Brain-Injured

For the first three years of his life, Billy was just another blue-eyed, blond youngster playing noisiiy and energetically with the neighbors' kids in Phoenix. Then one day he was hit by a car. Except for a bump on the head, he seemed unhurt and soon he was out playing again. But within a few days, he fell on a playmate's porch and lay there in a convulsive seizure. At the hospital, his parents learned that Billy's brain had been injured when he was hit by the car.

Billy's condition kept getting worse, and his...

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