Poverty and Obesity in Mississippi | Efforts to Escape Pover

A doctor counsels patients on dietary habits in a state where obesity is prevalent.  More

Upon graduating from medical school, Dr. Carleton Gorton, the director of the Gorton Rural Health Clinic in Belzoni, Mississippi, realized that his hometown in the heart of the Mississippi Delta needed a different kind of doctor. He opened a small clinic for his community, where more than half of the residents suffer from obesity-related illnesses.

AIR DATE 10/7/16