Stuff you need to know, 2.13.23

“Where have all the doctors (and nurses) gone?”
by Vanessa G. Sánchez, Searchlight New Mexico
February 8, 2023

A dire scarcity of providers leaves New Mexicans without health care. Thirty-two of the state’s 33 counties are designated “Health Professional Shortage Areas,” and nearly 10,000 providers—nurses, doctors, psychologists, specialists—are currently needed to bring the state up to national standards,

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Diana Tittle
Diana Tittle

Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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