TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cooke,William
AU  - Ungar,Laura
TI  - Canary in the coal mine: a forgotten rural community, a hidden epidemic, and a lone doctor battling for the life, health, and soul of the people 
SN  - 9781496446527
AV  - RA771.6.I6 C66 2021
U1  - 362.109772/183 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Carol Stream, Illinois
PB  - Tyndale House Publishers
KW  - Cooke, William
KW  - Rural health
KW  - Indiana
KW  - Austin
KW  - Rural health services
KW  - Public health
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - HIV infections
KW  - Opioid abuse
KW  - Physicians
KW  - Biography
KW  - Religious life
KW  - Toxicomanie aux opiacés
KW  - Médecins
KW  - Vie religieuse
KW  - fast
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction: Forged by fire -- Welcome to Little Hazard -- Blood and tears -- Too close to home -- Sharks in the water -- Forsaken -- Surrender in the Amazon -- Lessons not learned -- Scarlet letters -- Love versus fear -- The law of love -- Voices -- Any positive change -- The other side of Hell -- A broken ballerina -- Undone -- The tragedy of bias -- Stubborn roots -- A more excellent way -- Learning to thrive -- Golden scars -- Epilogue: Hope revealed
N2  - "One doctor's courageous fight to save a small town from a silent epidemic that threatened the community's future-and exposed a national health crisis. When Dr. Will Cooke, an idealistic young physician just out of medical training, set up practice in the small rural community of Austin, Indiana, he had no idea that much of the town was being torn apart by poverty, addiction, and life-threatening illnesses. But he soon found himself at the crossroads of two unprecedented health-care disasters: a national opioid epidemic and the worst drug-fueled HIV outbreak ever seen in rural America. Confronted with Austin's hidden secrets, Dr. Cooke decided he had to do something about them. In taking up the fight for Austin's people, however, he would have to battle some unanticipated foes: prejudice, political resistance, an entrenched bureaucracy-and the dark despair that threatened to overwhelm his own soul. Canary in the Coal Mine is a gripping account of the transformation of a man and his adopted community, a compelling and ultimately hopeful read in the vein of Hillbilly Elegy, Dreamland, and Educated"--
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