Digital imaging equipment would help rural hospitals

Digital imaging equipment would help rural hospitals

In 2021, I fell off a golf cart and suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in Apalachicola. I was taken to George E. Weems Memorial Hospital — the local critical access hospital. After an initial scan, they could tell there was a serious problem and that I had a brain bleed. But their imaging technology wasn’t advanced enough to fully evaluate the extent of my injuries.  They acted decisively, putting me in an ambulance for the over two-hour tr…