Two years ago, a typical Wednesday night found Aaron Goodwin in a cramped room at the Mercy Health Clinic, helping a doctor bandage a wound on a diabetic patient’s foot. Today, he’s staying late at Athens Regional Medical Center, puzzling over an image on a computer screen. What’s captivating his attention is an X-ray showing…
Betting on Reno (Editor’s Note: This is the seventh in a series of articles on the Athens uninsured initiative, produced by graduate students in the Health and Medical Journalism Program at the University of Georgia.) When Vincent McDaniel was diagnosed with AIDS in 1991, doctors gave him a year to live. But 22 years later,…
Over the years, Michelle Tenorio has seen all kinds of people buy all kinds of things. At her store, Gateway Jewelry and Pawn in Athens, Tenorio sells jewelry, electronics, musical instruments and a range of other goods. But the store’s most sought-after items are guns. The purchase of those guns potentially could come at a…