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Small medical practices struggle to survive amid coronavirus pandemic

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May 14, 2020 at 9:55 a.m. EDT
“A health care business, in the middle of a pandemic, you’re going to let go bankrupt?” asked James Gill, president of Family Medicine at Greenhil in Wilmington, Delaware. “We have thousands and thousands patients who would be high and dry.” (Rachel Wisniewski/For the Washington Post)

Even before the coronavirus pandemic, some people in Alaska traveled hundreds of miles to get medical treatment. “And it’s going to be worse when this is all done,” predicts John Cullen, a family doctor in Valdez, 300 miles from the nearest hospital.

He fears his own small practice could be one of those to go under.