Despite a First-Ever ‘Right-to-Repair’ Law, There’s No Easy Fix for Wheelchair Users
When wheelchair components wear out or break down, the road to repair is littered with obstacles.
Markian Hawryluk, the senior Colorado correspondent for KHN, is based in Denver. He has reported on health care for more than 25 years, writing for such publications as the Houston Chronicle, American Medical News, and, most recently, The (Bend, Ore.) Bulletin. He has won numerous awards for his health reporting from the Association of Health Care Journalists and the Society of Professional Journalists and in 2009 won Oregon’s top reporting prize, the Bruce Baer Award for investigative journalism. In 2013, he was named a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan. He holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Illinois.
When wheelchair components wear out or break down, the road to repair is littered with obstacles.
Attracting new pharmacists to independent drugstores, especially to rural settings, is difficult. More communities may lose their only drugstore.