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To concerned residents of the Hall Top Rural District, a residential area of almost 1,000 houses off of Russ Avenue near K Mart in Waynesville, placing a no-kill animal shelter in the middle of their neighborhood is like a game of "Guess What Doesn't Belong?" But a zoning amendment approved by the town board on Oct. 9 allows Sarge's Animal Rescue Foundation, a non-profit organization, to do just that.
The alderman voted 4-1 to amend zoning regulations to allow an animal shelter to be a permitted use in the Hall Top district. Mayor Henry Foy dissented, citing his concern that residents in the area of the proposed shelter hadn't been given enough notice. Only one resident who opposed the shelter, Robert Hawk, came to the Oct. 9 meeting.
The rest of the room was filled with roughly 25 Sarge supporters, who made an impassioned plea to the town board to approve the land as the site of the organization's proposed no-kill animal shelter. Ultimately, they did.
Trouble is, the neighbors in the Hall Top District (located off Bradley Street near Barberville Baptist Church on Russ Avenue) weren't aware of Sarge's plans. Sarge's didn't do anything wrong in failing to notify the public. They put the requisite notice of a public hearing in The Mountaineer. Still, most residents were totally caught unaware when word spread of the alderman's decision to allow for an animal shelter on the property.
Rosalyn Mills, a Hall Top resident, said she found out about the alderman's decision the day after from a friend who telephoned her.
"They called and asked me, 'do you know anything about this?' I said, no, I don't. I get out in the neighborhood and start asking questions. 'Did you know anything about this? Did you receive any letters or notification about this?' No, they had not," Mills said.
"Sarge's had not been in the neighborhood communicating with the residents, so of course we had no inkling that any of this was going on," she said.
Neighbor Rachel Torda, whose property is adjacent to the proposed site, said the one public notice required to be printed in the paper simply wasn't enough.
"I don't have time to scan the public notices looking for something that impacts me," she said.
Residents of the Hall Top area who knew about the plans made it a point to relay the information to other members of the community. Neighbors turned out in droves at the following town meeting on Oct. 23. The size of the crowd shocked town officials. Foy said the 75-plus audience was close to the largest he's ever seen at a town board meeting. In the audience were residents of the Hall Top District as well as representatives from Sarge's Animal Rescue.
The Oct. 23 meeting wasn't a public hearing, so Mills, who was on the agenda, spoke on behalf of her neighbors. Ultimately, the board voted 3-2 to send the decision back to the planning board. This time, aldermen Gary Caldwell and Kenneth Moore joined Foy in his opinion that the residents of the neighborhood hadn't been properly notified. Aldermen Libba Feichter and Gavin Brown stuck by their previous vote to OK the zoning amendment.
Moore was alerted to the exact location of the animal shelter by his sister-in-law and her husband, who live in the neighborhood. The alderman said, though, that this fact didn't play a part in his decision to reverse his previous vote.
"The people in that neighborhood, I don't think were notified properly," Moore said. On why he changed his mind on the vote, Moore also said he was under the impression that the shelter was going to be located at a different site than the one proposed.
"It's a big mess," he said.
"It scared the neighbors, and I just wanted it to be brought back to the table," Caldwell said of his vote reversal.
"There's some elderly folks that spent 35 to 40 years in there, and I just felt like they needed to have a say so in their neighborhood," he said.
Representatives from Sarge's expressed shock at the vote to send the decision back to the planning board.
"We had posted the public notices for when they first approved (the zoning amendement). We had thought that everything was fine and that everyone was in support," said Doyle Teague, president of Sarge's.
A pressing need
The animal shelter, slated for completion in 2010, will sit on five acres and house 25 dogs and 25 cats at any one time. The animals will be kept indoors and taken out for exercise.
Neighbors shouldn't be concerned about the noise or appearance of the shelter, Teague said.
"I've spoken to an architectural company who designs animal shelters all over the country. It would be a very pleasing building. It will be constructed in such a way that the best soundproofing materials available will be used. It would be a very beautiful site — it will look very good," Teague said.
A buffer of trees will shield the shelter from the road, and a nice-looking wooden fence will be put up, he said.
Sarge's has been raising money for a no-kill shelter for almost three years. Haywood County currently doesn't have one, and the current shelter fills up every six or seven days.
"There is a need for an adoption center where there is not such a crunch time like there is in the county shelter. We're just trying to lighten the burden on the county," said Teague.
Sarge's rescues animals from the county shelter and places them in foster homes. Currently, 50 animals reside in homes around the county. Sarge's animals are brought to adoption days at different locations every week.
Town officials and residents alike have said that they support Sarge's as an organization.
"I totally support a no-kill shelter. I have a dog I got less than a year ago from a no-kill shelter. I've given money to Sarge's," said Torda, a Hall Top resident. "I don't have anything in this world against Sarge's."
Moore agreed.
"They're a good organization and I love animals. I just think that it was done wrong, and Lord knows that I'm not trying to do anything to hurt Sarge's," Moore said
Residents voice concerns
Appreciation for Sarge's mission aside, however, residents contend that the animal shelter doesn't have a place in their neighborhood.
"Frankly, we just don't want it in the middle of our neighborhood. It's just not appropriate. It needs to be put in a different setting," Mills said.
One argument that has been used by Sarge's supporters is that the Hall Top area has been home to other animals — namely cows, chickens and horses — in the past.
Though the area is still zoned for agriculture, Mills said that's simply not the type of community it is anymore.
"This is no longer a farming community. Though it may be zoned for agriculture, it is not used for that purpose anymore. It's a residential community," she said.
Torda, another neighbor, expressed additional concerns. She feels Sarge's is not being forthcoming with residents and is misinforming the town about the proposed location.
"It's not just this little tiny pocket of houses. There are about 35 houses (immediately surrounding the property). When they talk about it on the application for the zoning and in the meeting, they likened (the shelter) to businesses along Russ Avenue. It's so misleading, and I think a group like Sarge's that is so capable of going out and sending out publicity ... it doesn't speak well of them," Torda said.
"The community wants to support them. They are making a huge mistake by not allowing the community to be part of this process," Torda said.

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PALATINE, IL -- (Marketwired) -- 10/09/13 -- Acura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACUR), a specialty pharmaceutical company developing products intended to address medication abuse and misuse, announced today that it has entered into distinct Settlement Agreements with each of Par Pharmaceutical and Impax Laboratories, to settle Acura's patent infringement action pending against them in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. In the suit, Acura alleges that a generic Oxecta® product for which each of Par and Impax is separately seeking approval to market in the United States pursuant to an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) filing with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) infringes a U.S. patent owned by Acura. Par is the first filer of an ANDA for a generic Oxecta® product and is entitled to the 180-day first filer exclusivity under applicable law and FDA regulations.
Under the terms of the Settlement Agreement with Par, Par may launch its generic Oxecta® product in the U.S., through the grant of a non-exclusive, royalty-bearing license from Acura to Par that would trigger on January 1, 2022. Acura currently has Orange Book patents that are due to expire between November 2023 and March 2025. In certain limited circumstances, Acura's license to Par would become effective prior to January 1, 2022. Par is required to pay Acura royalties in the range of 10% to 15% of Par's net profits from the sale of its generic Oxecta® product.
Under the Settlement Agreement, Impax may launch its generic Oxecta® product in the U.S., through the grant of a non-exclusive, royalty-free license from Acura to Impax that would trigger 180 days following the first sale of a generic Oxecta® product in the U.S. by an entity that is entitled to the 180 day first-filer exclusivity under applicable law and FDA regulations (or if no entity is entitled to such 180 day exclusivity period, the date on which a generic Oxecta® product is first sold in the U.S. or November 27, 2021, whichever date occurs first). In certain circumstances, Acura's license to Impax would become effective prior to such time.
Acura's President and CEO, Bob Jones said, "We are very pleased with these results, which reflect our continued confidence in the strength of our patents while removing the uncertainty, distraction and cost of litigation."
The Settlement Agreements provide for a full settlement of all claims that were asserted in each of the Par and Impax suits, subject to the Court's acceptance of the stipulations of dismissal. As required by law, the Settlement Agreements with Par and Impax will be submitted to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and US. Department of Justice.
Background on the litigations settled
On September 20, 2012, we announced that we had received a Paragraph IV Certification notice from a generic sponsor of an ANDA for a generic Oxecta® product. Since such date, we have received similar Paragraph IV Certification notices from four other generic pharmaceutical companies that have filed ANDAs for generic Oxecta® products. As a result, on October 31, 2012, we initiated suit against each of Watson Laboratories, Inc. - Florida (Watson), Par Pharmaceutical, Inc. Impax Laboratories, Inc. and Sandoz Inc. in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. On April 29, 2013, we initiated suit against Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. In each such litigation, we have alleged infringement of our U.S. Patent No. 7,510,726 listed in the FDA's Orange Book, and having an expiration date in November 2023.
On January 2, 2013, our motion to dismiss the litigation against Watson on the grounds that Watson had amended its ANDA from a Paragraph IV Certification to a Paragraph III Certification, which indicated its intent not to market its generic Oxecta® product in advance of our patent expiring, was accepted by the Court. The Settlement Agreements with Par and Impax does not affect the status of Acura's separate Oxecta® patent litigation against Sandoz and Ranbaxy pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.
About Acura PharmaceuticalsAcura Pharmaceuticals is a specialty pharmaceutical company engaged in the research, development and commercialization of product candidates intended to address medication abuse and misuse, utilizing its proprietary AVERSION® and IMPEDE® Technologies. AVERSION contains polymers that cause the drug to gel when dissolved; it also contains compounds that irritate the nasal passages. IMPEDE is designed to disrupt the processing of pseudoephedrine from tablets into methamphetamine.
In June 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved OXECTA® (oxycodone HC1 tablets) which incorporates the AVERSION® technology. The Company has a development pipeline of additional AVERSION® technology products containing other opioids.
The trademark OXECTA® is owned by Pfizer Inc.
Forward-Looking StatementsCertain statements in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements may include, but are not limited to, that the U.S. District Court does not approve the stipulation of dismissal of the litigation with each of Par and Impax, that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission or the U.S. Department of Justice challenge the enforceability of the Settlement Agreements or that private plaintiffs challenged the Settlement Agreements, whether or not additional third parties may seek to market generic versions of Oxecta and the results of our pending litigation or future litigation we may file to defend and/or assert our patents against such companies, the possible occurrence of one of these specific events that would result in Par or Impax marketing a generic Oxecta product earlier than we anticipate, our and our licensee's ability to successfully launch and commercialize our products and technologies including Oxecta Tablets and Nexafed Tablets, the price discounting that may be offered by Pfizer for Oxecta, our and our licensee's ability to obtain necessary regulatory approvals and commercialize products utilizing our technologies and the market acceptance of and competitive environment for any of our products, the willingness of wholesalers and pharmacies to stock Nexafed Tablets, expectations regarding potential market share for our products and the timing of first sales, our ability to enter into additional license agreements for our Aversion Technology product candidates, our exposure to product liability and other lawsuits in connection with the commercialization of our products, the increasing cost of insurance and the availability of product liability insurance coverage, the ability to avoid infringement of patents, trademarks and other proprietary rights of third parties, and the ability of our patents to protect our products from generic competition, our ability to protect and enforce our patent rights in any paragraph IV patent infringement litigation, and the ability to fulfill the FDA requirements for approving our product candidates for commercial manufacturing and distribution in the United States, including, without limitation, the adequacy of the results of the laboratory and clinical studies completed to date, the results of laboratory and clinical studies we may complete in the future to support FDA approval of our product candidates and the sufficiency of our development to meet OTC Monograph standards as applicable, the adequacy of the development program for our product candidates, including whether additional clinical studies will be required to support FDA approval of our product candidates, changes in regulatory requirements, adverse safety findings relating to our product candidates, whether the FDA will agree with our analysis of our clinical and laboratory studies and how it may evaluate the results of these studies or whether further studies of our product candidates will be required to support FDA approval, whether or when we are able to obtain FDA approval of labeling for our product candidates for the proposed indications and will be able to promote the features of our abuse discouraging technologies, whether our product candidates will ultimately deter abuse in commercial settings and whether our Impede technology will disrupt the processing of pseudoephedrine into methamphetamine. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as "may," "will," "should," "could," "would," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "believes," "indicates," "estimates," "projects," "predicts," "potential" and similar expressions intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are based on assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.Securities and Exchange Commission.
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In your finally Friday media column: Michael Daly is leaving the NY Daily News, NewsBeast is a revolving door, Greta Van Susteren bolsters her "Fakest Journalist" credentials, a reporter quits in style, and something notable printed in The Daily.
Michael Daly, one of the most high profile columnists at the New York Daily News, is leaving the paper to join NewsBeast, multiple sources tell us. Rough. Congrats?
Of course, they need the help: at least five senior level staffers have left the Daily Beast recently. They've been replaced with as many new hires. The carousel just keeps spinning, I guess, who knows where it will end? (Barry Diller does.)
Fox News' Greta Van Susteren, America's Fakest Journalist, will be attending Kim Kardashian's wedding, as a guest. As we mentioned, Greta Van Susteren is America's Fakest Journalist.
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I was planning to make last week's rant about my car dealer a "good news – bad news" story, but there wasn't room for the good news. Don't get me wrong, the good news had nothing to do with the car dealer. It's not like they swapped the summer air out of my tires for free. No, the good news was that I got my camera back. From a customer service point of view, Square Trade was wonderful to deal with throughout the process.
This story starts several years ago, but I've already told most of it. The part about wanting a small camera, that camera developing a smudge, bad repair, new camera, etc. You can read all about it here.
The new camera was fine. No smudge. Cheaper, and smaller, but not better. Definitely not better. The new Sony featured a variety of fancy-schmancy filters and scene modes, but no longer had a Manual setting. I thought I had figured out how to work-around the manual thing, but alas, my method proved less than foolproof.
Worse yet, the goal of the new camera appears to be to make every photo look like it was taken at noon. Snap a low-light photo in the early morning, click-click-click-click-click – five photos in quick succession are melded into a bright image of a dark city. These photos look dumb. There appears to be oodles of ambient light, yet there's no sun, no shadows and you can clearly see the contrast between the building and its artificially-lit windows. It's like those scenes where the hero lights a match and the room lights up like Luna Park.
I pouted.
I couldn't take the camera back, but I hated using it. I was pretty sure I had spent my camera allowance. I suffered with that camera for almost a year before deciding to suck it up and buy a better camera.
When my daughter and I went to New York last summer, we researched cameras on the train ride into the city. I settled on a Nikon CoolPix S9900. This camera is everything I want in a point and shoot camera. In a pinch, I can slip it into my pocket. It takes great photos, has all the features I like, including Manual mode, the battery lasts a long time and it has a 30x optical zoom. I love this camera.
However, while taking photos in my shop, I smacked the lens against the side of a metal cart. The lens cover stopped covering. It also stopped opening. It made me long for the days when I could just lose my lens cover, leave it on while snapping a picture or have it or its shadow creeping into my downward looking shots.
I had purchased an extended warranty with Square Trade through B&H Photo. I felt good about that, but I worried that some loophole would allow them to escape without fixing my camera, since I was clearly at fault. I contacted Square Trade via their website and simplicity took over.
B&H had registered the camera in my name when I bought it. There was no receipt, but I was offered a button on the website to upload the receipt. I did. I got an email: "The status of your claim has changed – we have your receipt, we are verifying it now. This might take up to two hours." Two hours later, I got an email basically saying "send us your camera."
The point when I knew Square Trade was a cut above most companies when it comes to customer service was when they notified me that the FedEx guy had picked up my camera from the box I dropped it in. From that point forward, every change in the camera's journey and every bit of its repair was communicated to me via email. The repairs were completed in the promised time frame, they were completed to my satisfaction and the camera was returned a day ahead of schedule. Square Trade paid the shipping AND THANKED ME for my business! Oh my goodness, I want to go buy something else just to buy a warranty from these people!
I have my camera back, I am happily taking pictures again and I will always appreciate the quality service and the way I was treated by the folks at Square Trade.
I want to thank Ellen for encouraging these customer service stories. I think I can let this topic rest for a while, but it felt good to end on a good note.


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"It's cool to stay in school," a phrase we have heard hundreds of time and yes education is important, especially when the schools are ranked highly. As summer rolls to an end and students are heading back to classes, many school ratings are published. The US and World Report publishes their annual report in August. This year, to no one's surprise Harvard, Princeton and Yale topped the list of best universities based on academics. But what about other rankings? Every year the Sierra Club also comes up with a list: the "Coolest Schools." The "Coolest Schools" rank universities with the environment in mind. The Sierra Club offers a survey up to all universities regarding a total of ten environmental categories including Energy Supply, Waste Management, Food, and Financial Investments. Evaluations are made on the survey questions as well as follow-up inquiries.
This year's list consists of 162 universities who answered the survey including big name UCs such as Irvine, San Diego, and Davis as well as the world-famous Harvard University. Even with these high-profile names, the one getting all the attention is Green Mountain College. Green Mountain College, with an overall 88.6/100 topped this year's list of greenest schools. The school nestled in beautiful Vermont, ranked so high due to their creativity and the fact that their energy comes from biomass and biogas. They are hoping to move completely carbon neutral by next year.
Others in the top ten include Evergreen State College, Stanford University, and of course Harvard. Each University in the Top Ten has innovative green initiatives. I really liked the Northland College's McLean Environmental Living and Learning Center which has composting toilets, solar panels, and a wind turbine. I also felt inspired by the University of Washington's interdisciplinary Environmental Innovation Challenge. For a full list of all 100 Green Universities go to Sierra Club's Coolest Schools.
Does your school or alma mater make the list? If you don't see your school or want to improve your school's environmental ranking consider getting involved with your college leadership or environmental activism clubs. There were a total of 900 schools who received surveys but did not complete them, if your school didn't complete the survey, encourage them to participate next year and make a green mark on your school to make sure it is the coolest.
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Etta Pederson, 92, stops by the clinic for a follow-up visit. Dr. Robert Bösl, wearing cowboy boots and a stethoscope, strolls into the examining room, checks her breathing, reviews some test results on his laptop and delivers a dose of good news.
Her pneumonia has cleared up. After reviewing her medications, Bösl puts his arm around her shoulder, commends her lovely smile and helps her up with an outstretched hand.
She smiles, well aware that her doctor — the only physician in Starbuck, a town of 1,300 — was recently named national Country Doctor of the Year. There's a billboard with his picture announcing it along Hwy. 28 as it curls around Lake Minnewaska 140 miles northwest of the Twin Cities.
The prestigious award isn't what impresses Pederson. Nope, it's what he's done to ease the irritating rash on her side.
"First doctor I've been to that has helped me with my itch," she says.
Pederson's son-in-law, who drove her to the appointment, is equally appreciative. "Having a doctor like Bob in a small community like ours is something very precious," Norman Nissen says. "It means an awful lot."
And it's becoming increasingly rare to find family-practice doctors like Bösl who want to plant roots in rural America. The average U.S. doctor is 55 and the number of physicians who will retire soon far outpaces students coming out of medical school willing to work in small communities. A recent study predicts a nationwide shortage of 90,000 doctors a decade from now as loan-strapped med students opt for such high-paying specialties as cardiology and orthopedics in big-city hospitals over the do-it-all juggling acts of small-town docs like Bösl.
That's why the Country Doctor of the Year award is extra sweet and includes more than a plaque, an engraved stethoscope and a monogrammed lab coat. The Texas-based health care staffing company that presented the award will pay the $10,000 cost to send a temporary physician to fill in for Bösl. That will allow the doctor his first two-week vacation in nearly a decade. He plans to head to Nevada to play golf in March.
'Let's keep it going'
Bösl (pronounced "basil") knew he would face myriad challenges practicing family medicine in rural Minnesota when he chose to settle in Starbuck 33 years ago. But the people, the lake and the broad variety of cases all appealed to him.
"Remember that TV show when you didn't know what was behind Door Number 2? Well, that's the way we practice medicine here," he said, on his way to sew five stitches into the cut flesh between a 25-year-old's left thumb and forefinger.
He grew up about 30 miles away, south of Sauk Centre. After serving as a medic in Vietnam, he was drawn back to the area.
"I just felt there was a need out here," said Bösl, 66, "and I could fully utilize my skills doing the appendectomies, C-sections, tonsillectomies and colonoscopies that I wouldn't be able to perform in the metropolitan area with all those specialists around."
Starbuck has a long history of quality doctors, dating to the 1800s. But when the Minnewaska District Hospital closed its doors in 2005, Bösl mulled retiring and walking away from a successful career. Then he shook his head.
"People retire when they no longer feel good about what they're doing," he said between patients. "At that time I felt good about what I was doing and felt this community deserves the good health care it's enjoyed for many years so I thought: Let's keep it going."
He took out a mortgage on his house, invested his savings and literally built the clinic from scratch — even pouring his own footings on a chilly New Year's Day nine years ago.
Now a year past the traditional retirement age, Bösl jokes with his staff that the "R" word is banned at the Starbuck clinic. But he acknowledged administrators who manage the clinic have been searching for Bösl's eventual successor.
"You can't just go into the grocery store and find a doc that's willing to practice in a rural area," he said. "A lot of people don't feel comfortable practicing without a bunch of other doctors nearby."
That's what impressed the Country Doctor of the Year folks, a group from Staff Care and AMN Healthcare, affiliated national health care staffing companies that have presented the award since 1992 to physicians in communities with fewer than 30,000 people.
After reviewing a nomination sent in from Bösl's daughter, committee members conducted a two-hour telephone conference with Bösl, then sent three members to interview him and talk to town leaders and patients. They returned to present his plaque at a recent banquet at Starbuck's community center.
"I'm the first winner ever from Minnesota," Bösl said. "After making two visits here in the middle of a cold winter, I wonder if they'll allow any more from Minnesota."
He chuckles, but there were tears in his eyes when he told his staff of eight nurses and technicians about the honor. They've all been with him the last nine years. Many predate Bösl's arrival in 1981.
"We wouldn't be here without him," said Vicki Pieske, a lab technician. "He's the epitome of what a county doctor should be: He's very calming and never gets riled about anything, but he's smart beyond any of our comprehension."
Windswept Rounds
Etta Pederson, 92, stops by the clinic for a follow-up visit. Dr. Robert Bösl, wearing cowboy boots and a stethoscope, strolls into the examining room, checks her breathing, reviews some test results on his laptop and delivers a dose of good news.
Her pneumonia has cleared up. After reviewing her medications, Bösl puts his arm around her shoulder, commends her lovely smile and helps her up with an outstretched hand.
Bösl, thin as a fishing pole and sporting a bushy gray mustache, wakes up at 5 a.m. every day. He built his house with a racquetball court and a basketball rim. He carved out a 300-yard fairway and putting green at his place on the lake, so he can practice when spring arrives.
"I derive my pleasure in short bits rather than saving up the whole year for a three-week vacation in Jamaica," he said.
His schedule wouldn't permit that. He's on call seven days a week and begins each day driving 40 miles round-trip to the hospital in Morris. Lately, that's meant squinting through blowing snow and navigating his Cadillac Escalade through subzero chills. He usually circles back to Morris every evening for a second inpatient check.
"He's steadfast, conscientious and committed," said Greg Rapp, a physician assistant. In his 12-plus years working with Bösl he recalls only one day the doctor couldn't see patients. "His commitment and drive is always there."
Last summer when a storm felled several trees on his property, Bösl chainsawed his way out of the driveway to make his morning rounds.
If Bösl weren't in Starbuck, patients would have to go to Benson, Glenwood or up to Alexandria — a 50-mile round trip.
"That wouldn't be a problem for young people, who would just hop in the car and go," he said. "The problem with these rural counties like Pope County, is there are a lot of elderly here and it's really inconvenient and expensive."
He paints the picture by numbers. The average person sees a doctor 3.5 times a year. Take 10,000 people in the county. That's 35,000 trips of 50 miles or roughly 1.75 million miles of annual medical commuting. At the IRS's 50-cent-a mile-rate, that's $875,000 a year.
Beyond the numbers, Bösl loves the broad spectrum of ailments he treats, as well as knowing other factors that might affect a patient's health.
"We know all the gossip in the community and what people's stresses are," he said. "We understand relationships, who's having trouble with a spouse or work, all of which impact someone's health care."
He regularly works with medical students from the University of Minnesota Duluth, which sends nearly half its young doctors to towns with fewer than 20,000 people. Many have come out and shadowed Bösl to learn the art of family practice medicine. Medical schools, he said, are increasingly keen on finding a balance in admissions by looking for students from rural areas who might be more willing to fill the void and address the pressing shortage of small-town primary care doctors.
Until then, Bösl will continue making those windswept rounds and cajoling patients whose ages range from prenatal to 90-plus.
"I would be comfortable walking away from this," he said, "if I knew there was somebody to fill these boots."
He glanced down at his dark leather cowboy boots and zoomed off to his next patient.
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Maura Murray, 21, disappeared while driving in the New Hampshire woods on a snowy night in 2004.
Maura Murray, a 21-year-old nursing student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, disappeared on a cold and snowy night in February 2004. She was last known to be driving from Massachusetts through New Hampshire. It is still unclear where she was heading in her black 1996 Saturn.
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