Health care has come a long way, but will public do its part?
I was surprised at the number of people who read my last column and shared experiences similar to mine. The poverty of my childhood and the lack of medical care in the community where I was born were not unique. My family was poor, but so were many people in Texas, Utah and throughout our country. Individuals and families were trying to recover from the greatest flu epidemic the world had ever known. In the United States, the Spanish flu was first identified in military personnel in spring 1918 and spread worldwide. It was estimated that about one-third of the worldâs population became i...