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JACKSBORO — A big-city girl, Dr. Erika Crutcher wasn’t accustomed to some of the cases and people she would encounter in a rural North Texas hospital. One of her first was a wild hog bite. The Houston native suggested a hand specialist. “Naw, just fix it,” the patient said. So she patched him up. In the roughly five years since …

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