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Sent to a Rural Hospital to Die

Posted on September 22, 2016 12:55 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

Rural hospitals are struggling in many areas, in part because the Critical Access Hospital (CAH) designation was created by the Centers for Medicare and Medicai...

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Attracting Physicians to Rural Medicine

Posted on September 21, 2016 1:04 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

“American medicine is probably the best in the world, but they rush too much and do too much unnecessary surgery.” Dr. Bohdran Hordinsky (1991) Ha...

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The Disappearance of Rural Obstetrical Care

Posted on September 15, 2016 5:37 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

The United States infant death rate has always been far higher than that in other developed countries. Now researchers are finding that in the United States, th...

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The Rural One-Doc Town

Posted on April 19, 2016 5:37 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

The rural healthcare landscape is tremendously varied. For the many physicians practicing in metropolitan areas, I suspect it is hard to imagine practici...