The first time Xing Shaoyun reached for a leprosy patient's disfigured hand, the patient flinched. "Don't touch me," she whispered. "I don't want to make you sick." That moment shattered Xing's last ...

On the day of Trish Carling's last shift at the hospice, her colleagues applauded her as she left work [St Michael's Hospice] For hospice nurse Trish Carling, holding a dying patient's hand through ...