Can family doctors deliver rural America from its maternal health crisis?

Kaniya Pierre Louis (left) is a third-year medical student shadowing Dr. Zita Magloire for the day. Pierre Louis says she appreciates Magloire as a role model and an example of excellence.

More than half of American counties don’t have an obstetrician. Family physicians, working in teams with proper support, could be the answer to the crisis in rural obstetric care.

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