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Audio

The Rural Doctor Is In

WKSU 89.7

2022 Radio Television Digital News Association’s National Edward R. Murrow Award, radio news documentary (small market)

2022 Public Media Journalists Association Award, 1st place, short documentary (Division B)

There aren’t enough doctors in rural America. But more could be on their way soon. A new generation of future doctors are learning to practice medicine in rural places where many people have chronic conditions worsened by poverty and distance from health care providers. In Columbiana County, medical students and residents are learning from one doctor who still makes house calls.

Essays

From Mom Bike to Road Bike

Your Teen

When my oldest daughter was about to get her driver’s license this spring, I bought a road bike. Because of COVID-19, bikes are scarce. I thought it would be easy to give away my “mom bike,” an old cruiser that used to have a kid’s seat on the back. It wasn’t. Before I could embrace a new stage of cycling, I had to accept a new stage of parenting.

Books

The Art of Fact in the Digital Age: An Anthology of New Literary Journalism, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024

Car Bombs to Cookie Tables: The Youngstown Anthology, Belt Publishing, 2020

White Coats: Three Journeys through an American Medical School, The Kent State University Press, 2012

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