The report provided background information and a starting point for discussion at a public rural health care forum held Feb. 3 at Moscow High School. The forum was sponsored by Latah County Commissioners and the Pullman and Moscow Leagues of Women Voters. This electronic special edition is protected by copyright.
Most people don t like to talk about health care.
Somewhere within the bricks and mortar of hospitals and clinics are stark realities of our own mortality. Many of us would rather not face those truths. We discard the topic of health care from our list of dinner conversations unless it s carefully packaged within broader subjects such as politics or retirement. . Neither do they perform brain, spinal or organ-transplant surgery. But services ranging from emergency trauma care to laser hair removal to ultrasound imaging are offered and the list continues to grow.