<span itemprop="author">Therese Zink, MD, MPH

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The heartbreaking truth about advocating for aging parents in today’s health care system

My parents were born on the same day, six years apart, Depression-era babies. My dad died on Christmas Eve, 2016. Nearly every Christmas season after that, for the next seven years, I hoped Mom would follow him. Was I wrong to wish that? Dad played San…