“When I ask patients who they want us to call when they’re sick or who to call with medical test results and I watch those patients think and then answer, ‘Well, there’s no one.’ That’s what I find heartbreaking. To have no ally, no advocate. No one. That patient is isolated,” Dr. Kimberly Becher said.
Dr. Becher, a family practice physician at Community Care of West Virginia's Clay health center recently contributed to an article addressing social isolation and loneliness in rural health settings. To read the entire article and gain insight, please click here.
Dr. Becher, a family practice physician at Community Care of West Virginia's Clay health center recently contributed to an article addressing social isolation and loneliness in rural health settings. To read the entire article and gain insight, please click here.
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