Right now, over 4,000 National Health Service Corps (NHSC) clinicians
provide primary care to nearly 4 million people nationwide. But
that still leaves some 50 million people without access to health
care.
Thousands more clinicians and health care sites are needed to
adequately serve the millions of Americans still waiting for quality
health care in their communities.
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Alabama
Overcoming Generations of Unhealthy Lifestyles in Alabama
Celia Lloyd-Turney, M.D., couldn't help noticing the rich and fatty foods
filling the tables of her deceased patient's home in Huntsville, Alabama. The
patient's children had put together a feast in honor of their mother, who succumbed
after decades of suffering from obesity-related diabetes. Unfortunately, Lloyd-Turney
also noted, history was repeating itself-nearly all of her patient's children
were severely obese and likely to experience the same cycle of illness and premature
mortality, as had their mother.
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