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Rural Medicine – serving more, with less, over huge distances

by John on May 26, 2009

Just saw this stunning statistic in an article in the Nebraska Journal Star:
…rural America—where just 9 percent of the nation’s doctors serve 17 percent of its citizens scattered across 80 percent of its geography—is not an ideal place to find medical care.
I’m not sure if anything captures the current situation better than that snapshot.  Sadly, [...]

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Mapping Wisconsin’s Unemployment

by John on March 4, 2009

Great mapping application from the NYTimes – worth a look, as you can zoom in on any region, see stats for every county, and zoom back out to see the disparate impacts on the country…

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