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 Ascension. Dr. Benjamin shares what it takes to build rural healthcare from the ground up, from a $5 envelope that captures why she does this work to her conviction that education is healthcare's highest-leverage investment in prevention.