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Using technology to help rural practice.

S B Dymond·C J Rankin
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Health care providers in rural settings are faced with the same issues as those in urban areas, write Susan Dymond, M.B.A., and Christopher Rankin, but those issues are compounded by the isolation of distance. One answer to this problem is to use telecommunications and satellite technology to bridge these distances and that's just what Texas Tech University is doing.

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S B Dymond, C J Rankin. Using technology to help rural practice.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10121580/

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