http://blog.sermo.com/2014/07/07/obstacles-for-rural-physicians/ Talk Real World Medicine Mon, 23 Mar 2015 13:00:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 http://blog.sermo.com/2014/07/07/obstacles-for-rural-physicians/#comment-2473 Sun, 21 Dec 2014 08:32:29 +0000 http://blog.sermo.com/?p=1708#comment-2473 My experience with rural medicine started with a passion to serve an underserved rural community, and the ability to completely finance a clinic as a way to “give back” . It ended after observing well over a dozen good physicians in independent practice leaving the area, driven out by the established and only hospital and hospital owned clinic through abuse of various authorities such as credentialing, quality assurance, and manipulation of the state board. Now, twelve years later, that same rural underserved community is experiencing a physician shortage and population boom. Finally appearing to acknowledge their role in creating this crisis, the hospital has rid itself of the primary player orchestrating the losses.

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