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Rural Medicine Reborn
Engel, Leonard | March 5, 1949 issue

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The article discusses the medical facility in rural areas of the U.S. About 70,000,000 Americans who live on farms or in towns of less than 10,000 populations receive less and poorer medical care than those who live in cities. One reason is their lower per capita income. For nearly a decade and a half a little-known Boston foundation, the Bingham Associates Fund, has brought good medicine to rural New England through just such a regional system. One of the first undertakings of the Bingham organization was to provide the district hospitals with fully staffed and equipped laboratories to which doctors in outlying communities could send specimens by mail.

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MEDICAL care -- United States; RURAL geography; DRUGS; PER capita; HOSPITALS; UNITED States
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