Rural Physicians Don't Have to Go it Alone

Rural physicians account for less than 20 percent of the AAFP's active membership, and that percentage is gradually shrinking. The trend in our membership is toward employed positions in urban areas. And although more than 11,000 family physicians are practicing in small towns, farming communities and other out-of-the-way places like Plainville, Kan., it's easy to feel isolated when you are the only physician -- or one of the few -- in town. It also can leave small-town docs feeling like we don't have a voice in what the Academy is doing on behalf of family physicians.
Source: As We See It: Voices From the AAFP - Category: Practice Management Source Type: news