Part One: The Rural
Health Crisis
Rural America is facing a quiet public
health crisis. From the Rocky Mountain West
to the hills and hollows of Appalachia, small
town hospitals need more doctors --thousands
of them. In the first installment of a three
part series on rural medicine Stephen Henn
reports that foreign-born physicians are filling
the gap.
Listen to part three: 28.8K bps | ISDN
Part Two: Public
Health in Paw Paw
In the second installment of our three
part series on rural medicine Stephen Henn
visits Paw Paw West Virginia and examines
how federal programs have often failed to
reach patients in the poorest and most isolated
rural communities.
Listen to part three: 28.8K bps | ISDN
Part Three: The
New Country
In our last installment of our series,
Stephen Henn brings you the story of a young
Arab doctor who moved to a small town in West
Virginia on the eve of the Gulf War and took
a room above the local bar.
Listen to part three: 28.8K bps | ISDN
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