Going the distance: rural health care in Texas
Griffin, T.; Williams, J.; Barron, C.; Hartman, L.; Trombatore, K.
Texas Medicine 86(8): 26-32
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0040-4470 PMID: 2399507 Document Number: 367616
Many doctors and hospitals are being squeezed out of rural and small-town Texas, and some of the population is beginning to suffer a lack of medical care comparable to that of underdeveloped countries. These articles consider the problem and present some options for improving health care delivery to rural Texans.
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