[Vision2020] Rural and remote

[Joan Opyr]

On 11 Mar 2006, at 11:25, Tom Hansen wrote:

>
> Rural America is loaded with communities that are not within driving 
> distance of a pharmacy, especially here in Idaho.
>  
> Google “Dixie, Idaho”.  We here in Moscow don’t understand what 
> “rural” truly is.
>  
> Disabled American Veterans (DAV) has been attempting to reduce this 
> problem with its Mobile Service Office (MSO) Program, an integral part 
> of the DAV’s Outreach Programs.
>  
> http://www.dav.org/veterans/outreach_programs.html
>  
> So, John D, it comes down to what you consider to be “driving 
> distance” between a pharmacy and a disabled client.
>  
> Thoughts?
>  
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho

I have a cowgirl friend who grew up in Plevna, Montana.  (She was many 
times the state barrel-racing and goat roping champion.)  Her family's 
ranch was so remote that when one of them got sick, they had to phone 
the goddamn-rooshen-sonofabitching-honyocking farmer neighbor, who had 
a small airplane, and ask him to fly the sickie-poo to Miles City.  The 
rest of the time, they relied on a family member who'd trained as a 
veterinarian.  Not legal, but good in a pinch.

There are places more remote in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in 
your philosophy, John D.  I'd hate to have an apoplexy or a TIA in 
Deary, or Helmer, or Elk River -- how long would it take (without a 
neighbor's plane) to get to Gritman?  How exponentially lower your 
chances of recovery or even survival?  And those places, by Eastern 
Montana standards, are not especially remote.

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.joanopyr.com

PS: Many thanks to Jim Meyer for offering a pharmacist's perspective on 
Plan B.  Much appreciated.
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