Alabama rural healthcare is in serious condition, but the condition is treatable

By: Catherine Dorrough

Outlets: Alabama Reflector

Published: July 29, 2026

Words: 1,011

Last Updated: 5 days, 10 hours ago

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In 1948, Life magazine published ‘Country Doctor,’ a masterful photo essay by W. Eugene Smith that documented the work of Dr. Ernest Ceriani, the lone physician for the 2,000 residents of Kremmling, Colo.

In the photos, Ceriani manages to be everywhere all at once, covering an area that stretches 400 square miles on a plateau beneath the Rocky Mountains. On a house call, he sits at the bedside of a man who’s down …

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