PLAINS, Ga. ( WRBL ) — As people talk about all of the humanitarian good former President Jimmy Carter did across the globe, one of the things that sometimes gets downplayed is his impact in his own backyard.
Being a son of tiny Plains, Ga., in rural Sumter County, access to healthcare was something Carter was concerned about.
And one of the instruments he used to fight the rural healthcare issue was Mercer University in Macon. WRBL is exploring President Carter’s impact on rural medicine…