In 2020, Marcy Markes was confronted with a harsh reality.
A nurse practitioner who has specialized in allergy and asthma care for more than two decades, she was forced to close three of her rural allergy clinics in central Missouri and consolidate her practice at her clinic in Columbia. ×
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