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The topic of my paper will be focusing in on how patients are treated in their non-native countries, the primary focus being on undocumented in the country. The two nations that will be looked at are the United States and Mexico. The reason I have chosen this topic was that I have some experience in this field and if I continue on the path I’d like to, there will be many more experiences surround this topic in my future. My personal experience which I feel that I can bring to the paper is the volunteering I have done at a free clinic. Many of the people who would come to us did not have US papers, and all of the patients we saw did not have medical insurance. In fact, there was a process to become a patient including a forty-five-minute visit.

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