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Richard C. Smoot Appalachian Heritage, Volume 23, Number 4, Fall 1995, pp. 21-28 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1995.0052 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/436645/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:07 GMT from JHU Libraries Medical History Notes From Appalachia Richard C. Smoot Original Hospital at Hazard Hospital is a word that conjures up some truly disparate mental images. Safe haven, cold complex, center of hope, den of despair, bastion of science, or the road to financial ruin, physicians, nurses, surgery: these are but a few of the thoughts that race across many a mind's eye when regarding hospitals. Yet the usual reference point is the hometown hos- pital, housing the best means of care a given community has to offer. In central Appalachia, such thoughts often translate into one of the several hospitals of Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc. The hospitals, clin- ics, and other institutions and services falling under the Appalachian Regional Healthcare umbrella form an integral part of the economic, social, cultural, political, and educational fabric of the region and the communities they inhabit. Examining the historical underpinnings of the Richard C. Smoot, Lexington, Kentucky, is a research associate for
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