{"id":14832,"date":"2019-12-24T08:45:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T13:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14832"},"modified":"2019-12-24T08:45:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T13:45:43","slug":"coping-with-loss-of-hospital-rural-town-realizes-we-dont-need-a-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14832","title":{"rendered":"Coping With Loss Of Hospital, Rural Town Realizes: We Don\u2019t Need A Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sarah Jane Tribble for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>FORT SCOTT, Kan. \u2015 Dr. Max Self grabbed a sanitary wipe and cleaned off the small flashlight in his hands. More than 20 years as a family doctor in rural Fort Scott, Kan., has taught him a few tricks: \u201cI\u2019ve got my flashlight. See? Look, you want to hold it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two-year-old Taelyn\u2019s brown eyes grow round and her tiny hand reaches out. But, first, Self makes sure she opens her mouth wide and he peers down. Behind him sits another staff member \u2015 a medical scribe. Self\u2019s scribe gives him the ability to \u201cfocus on people,\u201d rather than toggling between a computer screen and the patient. It\u2019s a new perk he didn\u2019t have when he worked at Mercy Hospital.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/coping-with-loss-of-hospital-rural-town-realizes-we-dont-need-a-hospital\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sarah Jane Tribble for Kaiser Health News) FORT SCOTT, Kan. \u2015 Dr. Max Self grabbed a sanitary wipe and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14833,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14832\/revisions\/14833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}