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1RUSSELL NUZUM is Senior Manager of Financial Management and Accounting Services for SmithBucklin, the world's largest association management company, providing flexible, tailored services to 320 trade associations, professional societies, technology user groups, and government institutes/agencies. He is also Finance Director for Lamaze International. RACHEL NUZUM is Senior Policy Director for The Commonwealth Fund. The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that promotes a high performing health-care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable populations, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults.
Abstract:
In this column, a father and a mother each share their unique version of their son's natural birth.
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