Rolling Stone March 30, 2021
New book exposes the perils and pitfalls of trying to foster wellness in rural areas and small towns devastated by the forces of capitalism
America is broken, but sometimes it takes looking at the smallest shattered pieces to realize how broken. That is the sad lesson at the core of Brian Alexander’s The Hospital. An Ohio native, Alexander spent two years reporting in Bryan, a small town in the state’s northwest corner where the jobs, benefits, and even the grocery stores have gone away, leaving a nonprofit hospital as the community’s soul and, unwittingly, it’s economic engine. This is not an uncommon predicament in the hollowed-out industrial parts of the country whose cities no longer feature steel mills and auto...
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