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At the end of Hour 2, Barbara Jones, a registered nurse and Health Chair of the west side and statewide NAACP branches, talks with us on the phone. Barbara focuses on educating people about diseases and disorders that disproportionately affect African Americans, like AIDS, diabetes, and sickle cell anemia.

We also speak with Tamaara Morris around the end of Hour 3, a dentist working at the Chicago Family Health Center on 115th st, which features mostly free services.

In the middle of Hour 4, we talk to Cheryl Calvin, who tells us about her father's complicated, painful experience fighting cancer without adequate medical coverage. He was able to get treatment at Stroger Hospital. Sadly, once his cancer was under control, the most painful, difficult things he went through were caused by a totally preventable, basic medical problem: dehydration.

In the middle of Hour 5 we speak with John Platt, an inpatient social worker at Stroger Hospital.