Wounds have been a relentless reality of Aaron Owens’ life. His pores and skin is so fragile that friction that might be trivial to others — rolling over in mattress, weight shifting towards the seat because the automobile turns — might scrape off his tissue. He didn’t like being in public generally as a result of folks would stare on the boy coated in bandages.
When he enrolled in a scientific trial just a few years in the past, {the teenager} didn’t know which wound on his physique was handled with the experimental medicine, and which was dosed with a placebo. This trial wasn’t like so many others the place some enrollees get the drug in query and others get a sham dose. Reasonably, Owens acquired each, however on completely different wounds.
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