Nurse Practitioner Wyconda Thomas sends a prescription to a pharmacist for one of her patients at her clinic, Healthy Living Family Medical Clinic, in Gunnison, Miss., Thursday, December 8, 2022. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today
To reach Gunnison, Mississippi, from Cleveland, the quickest path – though not the route with the best-paved streets – takes you off Highway 8, down miles of narrow roads slicing through some of the most fertile land on earth. In early December, the fields are still but not empty.
