Summary Because of the pain I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t talk to my friends. I wanted to crush my head against the wall and shake…. …. My pain tears me apart.. —Adil Akram, 29, who battled cancer in his leg for years, Rabat, October 1, 2014 In 2013, Zayan Ebrahim (pseudonym) was a college student and restaurant chef in a city about 250 kilometers from Rabat, Morocco’s capital, when he began experiencing pain. After two local physicians misdiagnosed and treated him for hemorrhoids, the pain became so intense that, in his words, it began to drive him “crazy.” “I’m not sleeping,” he said. “Even when I am very tired, I only sleep for one hour [at a time]. Then I wake up because of the pain.” On...
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