Primary care health services filling gap in 'shortage areas'
Thursday, March 19, 2020 - 10:10
in Health & Medicine
The day paramedics rushed Jeramiah Parsons to the hospital, his lips were so sore and swollen he had trouble talking. A skin-picking habit related to his methamphetamine addiction had permitted a dangerous antibiotic-resistant infection to take up residence in his face. He had no health insurance and no doctor he could call.