After outcry, NIH apologizes for turning away portrait of person with rare disease
“It was a lovely conversation — what kind of a leader stands up and takes responsibility and calls and apologizes," the head of the group that organized the exhibit said…
The director of the National Institutes of Health apologized Saturday after a curator at the institute’s hospital objected to hanging one portrait in a scheduled exhibition depicting people with rare diseases, leading the organizers to cancel the show. Dr. Francis Collins called the founder and CEO of the group coordinating the exhibit, Patricia Weltin, on
