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Rural Health Care
Roger K. Howe, MD
Community Health Network of Louisiana Baton Rouge
Arch Fam Med. 1995;4(11):917-918.
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I have read the article by Saultz1 in the February 1994 issue of the ARCHIVES. I have never considered rural health care to be an "index species" for the health of the entire system, but the concept is fascinating. I practiced in a rural area of northern California for more than 22 years. I recently left practice and would like to comment about the issues I see relating to the well-being of the rural health care system.
Our community has been fortunate in its ability to recruit physicians to replace those who were retiring. When I arrived in Mount Shasta, Calif, in 1972, I was the eighth physician in the service area. When I left, I was one of 17 full-time equivalent physicians in the area. For years, the issue was getting physicians to consider moving to such a rural environment. Recently, it has also become getting them to
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