tax=ng PIH's resources severely. On average, the drugs to treat just one patie=t cost between fifteen and twenty thousand dollars. And the number of pati=nts kept growing. Already there were about fifty Carabayllanos in treatmen=. Their average age was twenty-nine. They were students, unemployed youths= h

es, cellulitis, breathing difficulties." 40Providing care is not incrementally more difficult, she said, 4>=9Cles a quantum leap." Not surprisingly, pati=nts often grow depressed and unmotivated. 'They're d=ing younger and younger," said Jeter. "It's horrif=c." To accommodate the many obese patients, Bap