Posted on Dec 6, 2020
Montana Nurse Describes How Coronavirus Pushes Rural Health Care To Its Limits
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In rural America, treating COVID-19 patients can be especially difficult.
People live far from limited medical facilities, and communities are small and isolated. Often, there's a stigma around just getting tested for the virus.
People live far from limited medical facilities, and communities are small and isolated. Often, there's a stigma around just getting tested for the virus.
Montana Nurse Describes How Coronavirus Pushes Rural Health Care To Its Limits
Posted from wbur.org
State of Montana
Billings
Medical
Health
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I lived in Billings for a number of years. Billings is the largest or second largest metropolitan area In Montana Great Falls being the other. The hospitals in Billings were very good. The problem is about 50 miles away you have the Crow Indian Reservation and a lot of large rural areas. Funny that Old Mouse was concerned about people being prompt. There is a common truism of “Indian or Res time. Anywhere within a couple of hours was “on time”.
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It's sad that they have such a hard time getting medical care, but a lot of the bigger hospitals are far away and are sometimes stretched to capacity also shipmate PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
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