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Access to Care Is Biggest Barrier to Healthy Living in Southwest Iowa
… When reporting for a recent series of articles, it quickly became apparent that what’s killing people in … in southwestern Iowa are higher than the national average, each of the doctors interviewed for these articles named residents’ inability or unwillingness to seek medical care until … family or friends to finally schedule an appointment with a primary care physician or visit an emergency room. “I see a lot of stoic people,” said Dr. Robert Armbruster, a …