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Truck stop doc keeps highway regulars healthy

By CBS News  
   February 06, 2015

A decorated hero who served with the Army's elite Delta Force recently earned another honor: "Country Doctor of the Year," for his service to his neighbors and truckers. In Raphine, Virginia, Dr. Rob Marsh turned a truck stop into a place to treat patients, reports CBS News correspondent Vicente Arenas. In Raphine, doctors are hard to come by, and the nearest major hospital is 40 miles away. That was not good news for Cheryl Neighbors, who was stuck in the country town, 3,000 miles from home and having trouble breathing.

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