Rural Roads

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Message sent
One family takes texting tragedy on the road
By Lindsey V. Corey
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Johnny Mac Brown

   Johnny Mac Brown is a quiet guy, the humble kind.
   But he’s also a proud papa. Ask him about his daughters and he’d light up talking about Alex’s straight A’s, her last choir performance and college plans and about Katrina, always following her big sister but enjoying taking center stage in school plays.
   Now, almost every day, Johnny Mac takes center stage.
   He starts with the stuff that comes naturally, showing prom pictures and bragging about his “little girls”. Even at 17, Alex would crawl up in his lap.
   And then Johnny Mac tells a different story, the one most people will remember. At least he hopes they will.
   On her way to school, Alex replied to a text while driving, he says, knowing many of the students listening did the same thing that morning and hoping they’ll make it to graduation.

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Spring 2012

Contents

Message sent
One family takes texting tragedy on the road

Home is where the hospital is
Rural Roads caught up with four women giving back to the rural hospitals where they took their first breaths.

Mother-daughter program aims to prevent STDs

ORHP encourages rural providers
to use health IT resources

Passages: Erik Brodt
Learning to walk the healer’s path

Street Smarts: Dustin Summers
No raft for the rural med student

Side Trip: Seattle
Seattle’s best with NRHA member Sue Skillman

Members on the move: David A. Gross
Member to lead AHEC, serve hospital

Members on the move: Craig Phelps
Health sciences university names new president

Members on the move: Val Schott
Past president credits NRHA involvement for landing new leadership job

News briefs: 2012 Rural Health Fellows
NRHA welcomes new fellows

News briefs: 2011 Rural Health Fellows
NRHA graduates fifth class of fellows

News briefs: Speak at educational conferences

News briefs: T.R. Reid
Best-selling author to headline NRHA event

News briefs: Outstanding leadership
NRHA recognizes congressional rural health champions

Accelerating advocacy: Election year
Listen up this election year

On ramp: Strong members, strong NRHA

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