Lessons in Community-Built Healthcare From Dr. Regina Benjamin, Former Surgeon General

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…