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Come to the Myra Mahon Patient Resource Center to see the National Library of Medicine's traveling exhibit: Physician Assistants: Collaboration and Care.
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The exhibit, organized by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, tells the history of the AIDS epidemic through a mix of text, historic photographs and images of pamphlets and publications from the era.
