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...hospital like Duke, where the emphasis is on specialty and cutting-edge medicine, almost half the 130 residents in the department of medicine are training to become primary-care physicians. This is the future of health care--a back-to-basics return to the profession's roots, when small-town doctors made house calls and were expected to deal with everything from births to a burst appendix. "Our mission is to train residents in the reality of where medicine is practiced, and that's in the outpatient setting," says Dr. Barton Haynes, chairman of the department at Duke...
...though an economic downturn might motivate us to start making a real mark on the world, it also introduces trouble on the horizon. And I'm not talking about the usual effects of a recession: the blow-dried reporters tromping through small-town cafes, trying to coerce a little vox out of the unemployed populi who glare suspiciously at them; nor am I alluding to eyeball-glazing newspaper business features led by headlines like, "Whither Textiles?" I'm referring to what happened the last time there was a burp in the economy, in the early 1990s: the transformation of harmless...
Fitzgerald's "inexhaustible variety of life" is getting harder to find. My romantic notion of what the wide open American West should be is outdated, but who among us would stand in the way of the processes destroying small-town America...
...would pay for that same glorious throne at a local mom-and-pop store. And, thus, the consumer is better off. Who am I to stand in the way? By criticizing this trend, I am not trying to advance a socialist agenda, I am merely lamenting the disappearance of small-town America, the America suggested to me by Norman Rockwell paintings...
...what's the solution? We must be aware of the cost of both our new warehouse style of capitalism, as embodied by Wal-Mart and Costco, and the revolution in communications technology. Small-town America no longer exists the way it did when our parents were growing up. You can still find unique places, but they are becoming more and more rare...