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100 Days in Appalachia

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Healthcare Is Human

Meet a Doctor Inside a W.Va. Crisis Support Center Who Relies on Hope in Recovery

July 18, 2024 by Ryan McCarthy & Molly Humphreys

At the West Virginia University Crisis Support and Recovery Center, the staff takes hope seriously. H-O-P-E is even spelled out in the steel railing inside their living quarters. 

Healthcare Is Human

Healthcare is Human: A Nurse on the Frontlines of an Addiction Crisis

July 2, 2024 by Ryan McCarthy & Molly Humphreys

Angie Gray has spent her entire career in public health nursing and says she knew long ago that West Virginia was vulnerable to many public health issues. Substance use disorder was becoming a problem in West Virginia as she advanced in her career, and its […]

Dr. Ryan McCarthy, left, started the podcast Healthcare is Human during the COVID-19 pandemic. The storytelling skills he learned during the podcast, he says, has changed the way he practices medicine and interacts with his patients in Appalachia. Photo: Molly Humphreys/Healthcare is Human
Health Care in Appalachia

Finding Solace in Stories: How Narrative Medicine Transformed an Appalachian Doctor’s Practice

June 25, 2024 by Ryan McCarthy

In the 1990s when I started medical school, nobody warned me how my job was going to hurt me emotionally. Maybe it’s better they didn’t, as I might have been scared away.  I must admit, there were a few omens I foolishly ignored early on. […]

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