Last year, Mahana Fisher had a patient come to his office with a sore on his backside that wouldn’t go away. It had lingered for nine months by then because the gentleman had a hard time scraping together enough money to see a doctor.
It ended up being cancer and required a series of surgeries and chemotherapy for a malady that could easily have been nipped in the bud.
It’s those types of cases that Fisher said he has seen too often during his years practicing medicine in rural Utah — 17 working at clinics in San Juan County and, since last year, at a clinic in St.