The Mississipi Delta's healthcare blues
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 - 21:10
in Health & Medicine
Anne Brooks, a nun and a physician, has struggled for years to treat the poor at a run-down clinic in Tutwiler. The nation's new healthcare law could help – but her state is fighting it. This crumbling Delta town, set amid cotton fields, abandoned railroad tracks and cypress-studded bayous, is a hard place.