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Rural Physician Retention And Workload: A Moving Target
Marc Horowitz, MD
East Carroll Medical Center Lake Providence, La
Arch Fam Med. 1995;4(3):204.
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My thanks for the two insightful articles1,2 on rural physician retention as it is impacted by perception of overwork. The research by Mainous et al1 struck some chords with me because I am a young, overworked, rural physician. Within a given week, my intention of leaving the practice varies all the way from 1 to 4 (based on the four-point scale of Mainous et al). However, it was not until I reviewed the Editorial by Pathman2 that I realized that the number of hours I was working was not a characteristic of my town but of myself.
Pathman2 observed that physicians who know that they will be leaving soon distance themselves from their practice. I would like to add that the myriad practice opportunities for primary care physicians may make relocation such an obvious option that physicians initially do not bond with their practice. In other words, the physician may decide initially that if it does not work out, he
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