Nominee 2024

The Only Doctor

Reel South, BellaFran Productions, PBS North Carolina, South Carolina ETV, Louisiana Public Broadcasting

Dr. Karen Kinsell, the sole doctor in rural Clay County, Georgia, has spent more than two decades providing care without pay, but now faces the tough choice between retirement and saving her struggling clinic. As a possible lifeline emerges from a university medical group, Kinsell insists on maintaining affordability and access in this documentary highlighting the high-stakes battle for rural healthcare amid political and pandemic-related turmoil.