...Dr. Regina Benjamin is known along Alabama's impoverished Gulf Coast (click here) as a country doctor who makes house calls and doesn't turn away patients who can't pay, even as she's had to find the money to rebuild a clinic repeatedly destroyed by hurricanes and once even fire....
...Benjamin was the first black woman to head a state medical society (click title to entry - thank you), received the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights and just last fall received a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant." But she made headlines in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, with her determination to rebuild her rural health clinic Bayou La Batre, Ala., which serves 4,400 patients who would be hard-pressed to find care elsewhere.
