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Rural Physician Retention And Workload: A Moving Target
Stephen H. Kriebel, MD
Family Medical Center Forks, Wash
Arch Fam Med. 1995;4(3):204.
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As a 20-year student, practitioner, and sometimes politician in rural health care, I cannot resist commenting on the fine work by Mainous et al1 and the Editorial by Pathman.2 The obtained data are useful and interesting. Several important aspects, unfortunately, are missing. A control group is critical in this kind of study. How would nonrural primary care physicians respond? How would nonrural non—primary care physicians respond? How would rural non—primary care physicians respond?
What people intend to do and what they actually do are often very different. I wonder what the outcome will be with Mainous et al's population. Unpublished data (Pete West, MD, MPH, Tom Norris, MD, Ed Gore, PhD, L. Gary Hart, PhD, Laura-Mae Baldwin, MD, MPH, March 1994) from the WAMI (Washington, Alaska, Montana, Idaho) Rural Health Research Center in Seattle, Wash, show that the retention rate
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