Leaving rural practice.
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From the St Mark’s Family Medicine Residency Program, Salt Lake City. The decision to leave rural practice and return to academia has been the most difficult one in all my life. This essay reflects on experiences and people that go through my mind as I move through the hospital on morning rounds. A once suicidal nurse is now getting remarried, another carries a scar that I feel responsible for, and the now empty wards of an outdated hospital impart sadness. Loneliness, lack of progress, and uncomfortable relationships outweigh the idyllic picture of home visits, knowing my patients well, and the quiet peaceful life in a rural area.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Family medicine
دوره 38 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006