Rural health equity starts outside the clinic walls
Health care is fundamentally broken when the patient has to choose between a day’s wages and a basic clinical checkup. In the rural landscape of California’s Imperial Valley, this is not a hypothetical dilemma. It is a daily reality for thousands of frontline agricultural workers and underserved families.
As a primary care physician operating independent clinics along the California-Mexico border, I have watched the conventional, centralized health care delivery system repeatedly …
Rural health equity starts outside the clinic walls
