Where you live affects your health care

July 1, 2008

“We’ve found that geography is often destiny,” says James N. Weinstein, D.O., director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, where this field of study was pioneered. “It’s not that the rates of disease are different, it’s the way they’re treated that’s different — from prevention to diagnosis to long-term care.” (MSNBC)