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The Providers

By Adam Keller | January 2019

Early in the healthcare documentary The Providers, we see a striking statistic: “Last year, 70,000 deaths in rural America could have been…

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Early in the healthcare documentary The Providers, we see a striking statistic: “Last year, 70,000 deaths in rural America could have been prevented with...

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