Author: By JAKOB RODGERS Special to The Gazette
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In two Colorado neighborhoods, even life expectancy is much diminished
Jim Garcia’s humble, adobe-plastered clinic stands sentinel atop the Lincoln Street hill in north Denver, its front doors looking out in the distance to a bustling dog food factory, a contentious highway construction project and the myriad tiny, century-old houses where many of his patients live. His doctors routinely prescribe insulin, administer heart checkups and…