Surgeon Wade Naziri offers his patients transparent, cash-based prices at his independent surgery center. It’s a novel concept in an environment of rising costs and hidden prices. Naziri began fighting for price transparency because his patients couldn’t afford out-of-network weight loss surgery at Greenville’s local hospital — which billed one of his patients $54,000. So,...
ROBBINSVILLE — A two-wheeled cavalry roars into Graham County every year. The motorcyclists come to vanquish the world-famous Tail of the Dragon mountain pass, and drop some money along the way. Locals say the secluded mountain county booms as a motorcycle mecca from spring to fall, doubling the normal population of about 8,500. Businesses in...
ROBBINSVILLE — David Lee Satterfield is a big man stuffed into blue, bibbed overalls. He’s wearing a well-worn orange baseball cap, and a thatch of impressive white whiskers flow around his weathered face. When he shakes your hand the powerful grip and leathered skin are evidence of a life hard work. It’s ironic yet sobering...
ROBBINSVILLE — Chantilly Welch remembers zig-zagging along the ribbon of two-lane highway to drive her sick baby to a doctor. She was a dot moving amid sprawling forests and mountains, on one of tens of thousands of outgoing health-related trips residents make annually from medically underserved Graham County. Another routine day. Until the crash. “It...
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