'It's hard': Small town doctors wearily treat patients who are close friends and family
'It's hard': Small town doctors wearily treat patients who are close friends and family

The population in Mills County, Iowa is 15,000.

In the town of Malvern, the population sits just over 1,000.

The healthcare professionals in these small communities treat and lose patients that are friends and family, adding to the stresses already put on those in the medical community.