In these days of urban drift, urban blight and urban sprawl it might be timely to have a last
look at rural medical practice before it disappears from the face of the earth. The pundits tell …

An Extended Role for the Rural Physician Page 1 Chapter 5 An Extended Role for the Rural
Physician What is the Rural Physician's Role? I find my role here a vital, challenging one with …

But in the rural areas the old style family doctor is alive and well. The successor to the horse-
and-buggy physician who ministered to his patients with the few tools of his trade tucked into …

There is something to be said for that. What matters for us is our patients and our community.
This is where we ground our values and apply our skills. This is what is important for us. You …

This is a book of absorbing interest dealing with rural health services in the USA; it shows
the reverse of a medal whose other side, with it Mayo Clinic and Presbyterian Hospital, etc …

R ECENT dramatic advances in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease coupled
with more accurate analyses of these advances by the lay press have served to stimulate …

Like most of you, I am a family physician enticed and captured by the special joys of living
and working in a rural setting. I remember well the time when I first discovered this. I was …

Many strategies have been put forth to attract physicians to work in rural areas. Yet the
lament of the rural physician seems unchanged except that the chorus is getting louder: it is …

40 medicine and rural generalism. The prospect of working in an overwhelmed,
understaffed, underfunded and burnt-out primary care system is not appealing. I worry about …

LOUISA BLAIR/[ost Australians (85%) live in IVlbig cosmopolitan cities that are crawling with
family physicians, who fight over patients with one another and with" drop-in" clinics, just as …