Before Dr. Regina Benjamin became the 18th U.S. Surgeon General, she was the only doctor in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, rebuilding the clinic she founded after two hurricanes and a fire. In this episode, host Dr. Cheryl Pegus sits down with Dr. Benjamin for a conversation spanning the gritty realities of healthcare in a town of 2,500 people to time spent in boardrooms at Kaiser Permanente and Ascension. Dr. Benjamin shares what it takes to build rural healthcare from the ground up, from a $5 envelope that captures why she does this work to her conviction that education is healthcare's highest-leverage investment in prevention.
