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- Rupa Marya
- Username: rmarya
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Joined PRX: Feb 12, 2004
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- "Heartland Medicine"
- Summary: Young doctors face challenges, provide total care, and live unconventional lives in rural Nebraska
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Review of Heartland Medicine
Rupa Marya
Posted on May 07, 2004 at 07:15 AM
This piece is a periscope into the communities cared for by three country physicians. Through the lens of the doctor/patient interaction, we hear poignant tales from the lives of people living in rural Nebraska. The quality of the sound and the balance between hearing from the doctors and their patients brought me right into their world, as sun-baked, homegrown and eccentric as it is. A beautiful, in-depth, humanistic examination of what it sounds like caring for and being cared for by people you know. This story would work well with news stories about how underserved our rural communities continue to be or how family medicine, once a favorite specialty of the 90s, is becoming a less popular career choice of today's subspecializing medical students.