Psychiatry & Neurology Doctors in Scottsboro, AL Accepting Medicare

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Dr. Darren Paul Gannuch, M.D. Psychiatry & Neurology - Psychiatry Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 380 Woods Cove Rd, Scottsboro, AL 35768 Phone: 256-505-6826    Fax: 256-571-2862

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Fairfax County, Va., and McDowell County, W.Va., are separated by 350 miles, about a half-day's drive. Traveling west from Fairfax County, the gated communities and bland architecture of military contractors give way to exurbs, then to farmland and eventually to McDowell's coal mines and the forested slopes of the Appalachians. Perhaps the greatest distance between the two counties is this: Fairfax is a place of the haves, and McDowell of the have-nots. ... One of the starkest consequences of that divide is seen in the life expectancies of the people there. Residents of Fairfax County are among the longest-lived in the country: Men have an average life expectancy of 82 years and women, 85, about the same as in Sweden. In McDowell, the averages are 64 and 73, about the same as in Iraq (Annie Lowrey, 3/15).

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