Set against the backdrop of the physician shortage and opioid epidemic in rural America, The Providers follows three hea | dG1fLTNRYmJaYlJQMHc
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00:00You're torn up inside pretty good, all along your stomach.
00:08I don't want my kids to bury me.
00:23I grew up in very rural northern New Mexico.
00:28There's so much beauty here, and there is so much pain.
00:34We are on the brink of a crisis.
00:39Does he have a name yet?
00:44No.
00:45Most years, Espinola is in the top five in the nation for heroin overdoses.
00:50The pills or whatever else, I mean, it's always there in the back of the mind.
00:56Okay.
00:58I saw a lot of awful things.
01:12Maybe you made me too serious.
01:21You're not placed on the earth to make me happy.
01:25You're on here for your own purpose and your own reasons.
01:36The job is about walking alongside patients, helping them find the door.
01:42We better say that.
01:43We better.
01:45Some people, you need to open the door just once.
01:48How we doing?
01:50Other people, it's months and years.
01:53But in the meantime, we fight the good fight.