Past Contest Entries

Rural Doctor Launches Start-up to East Pain of Dying Patients

This is a moving portrait of people living in far-flung rural areas and the difficulties they have getting care at the end of their lives. It profiles the sole doctor in a 120-mile stretch who provides palliative care services to people in Humboldt County, California, and the fledgling business idea he has to skirt hospital and government billing policies that, he says, restrict delivery of this important care to people in rural areas and Indian reservations.

Place:

No Award

Year:

  • 2014

Category:

  • Consumer/Feature (large)

Affiliation:

KQED Public Radio

Reporter:

April Dawn Dembosky, Health Reporter

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