Sixty years ago this month, a courageous initiative created by civil rights activists and physicians aimed to transform the social and medical landscape of the United States by challenging segregation in the South. Called Freedom Summer, the work it began is still going on today. In 1964, Dr. Robert Smith, an architect of the U.S. community …
News Topic: Behavioral Health
ROLLING FORK, MISSISSIPPI — Rev. Travis Gully had just finished dinner and was cleaning up the kitchen when his goddaughter asked him about a noise outside. Gully assumed it was from a passing helicopter on its way to the hospital. The noise grew louder and he could hear one of his godsons call out to …
Note: This story was written by Amarica Rafanelli and originally published on Direct Relief. When the patient arrived in the emergency room, he was distraught. His brother had been killed while migrating through Central America, leaving him to cross the U.S.-Mexico border alone. “He was getting emergency room-level care, but the thing that was eating …