California Healthline June 6, 2023
WINTERSET, Iowa — For 35 years, this town’s residents have brought all manner of illnesses, aches, and worries to Kevin de Regnier’s storefront clinic on the courthouse square — and he loves them for it.
De Regnier is an osteopathic physician who chose to run a family practice in a small community. Many of his patients have been with him for years. Many have chronic health problems, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, or mental health struggles, which he helps manage before they become critical.
“I just decided I’d rather prevent fires than put them out,” he said between appointments on a recent afternoon.
Broad swaths of rural America don’t have enough primary care physicians, partly because many medical doctors...
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