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Can Rural Hospitals Really Provide the Same Quality Cancer Care? (Part 1)
Dr. Ronald Weigel joins host Dr. Randy Lehman on The Rural American Surgeon to discuss the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer’s new rural accreditation pathway and what it could mean for hospitals, surgeons, and cancer patients in rural communities.
Dr. Weigel shares his path from engineering and surgical training at Duke to cancer research, leadership at the University of Iowa, and his current role as medical director of cancer programs for the American College of Surgeons.
The conversation then turns to the challenges of delivering cancer care in rural America, where patients…
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