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2023 Holiday Special: The Little Hospital on the Prairie (14 mins)
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Why do healthcare professionals shy away from working in scenic rural areas, even when they are offered the comfort of broadband internet and affordable housing? Today's episode addresses the two reasons why doctors and nurses avoid rural health and how innovators around the world are solving those problems.
Key Points:
-The new Netropolis
-Rwanda's blood bank program
-Specialty café
References:
-Ingraham, Christopher (2019). If you lived here you’d be home by now: Why we traded the commuting life for a little house on the prairie. HarperCollins.
-United States Census Bureau (Dec. 29, 2022). Nation’s Urban and Rural Populations Shift Following 2020 Census. https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/urban-rural-populations.html.
-Vogel, Emily A. (Aug. 19, 2021). Some digital divides persist between rural, urban, and suburban America. Pew Research Center. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/08/19/some-digital-divides-persist-between-rural-urban-and-suburban-america/.
-Henderson, Kim (March 9, 2023). Help wanted: How a small Navajo hospital is delivering care amid a big nursing shortage. World magazine. https://wng.org/articles/help-wanted-1677989626.
-Rober, Mark (March 18, 2023). Amazing Invention- This Drone Will Change Everything. https://youtu.be/DOWDNBu9DkU.
-Blain, Loz (January 24, 2023) “MightyFly's new autonomous cargo drone carries 100 lb for 600 miles.” New Atlas. https://newatlas.com/drones/mightyfly-cento/
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