FeaturedRural HeadlinesFebruary 20, 2025

Star Tribune: HCMC physician residents gain northern exposure to rural medicine

EXCERPT: “Dr. Alison Raffman had only arrived in Bemidji two days earlier, with three boxes of stuff and two cats, and already she was hustling around the emergency department at Sanford Bemidji Medical Center. The medical resident was treating dizziness in a newly diagnosed cancer...

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