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What it being a family physician in rural America like (think Wyoming or rural montana) Is there a lot of variety and wide scope of practice? Do you get burnt out? Do you enjoy it??

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Suzanne’s Answer

Jake, these are great questions and I wanted to be sure you got an answer. Since my career as a family physician was not in a rural area I passed your question along to a friend of mine who, along with her husband, are family physicians in the Mountain West. Here is her response:


"Rural medicine is the ideal still for medicine of a broad practice. The relationships forged by the community of a small town are deep and meaningful as a family physician. The scope of medicine lends itself to keeping more skills and practicing emergency medicine (casting, conscious sedation), hospital medicine (admission, IV therapies and wound care) along with the routine regular life saving care of preventing chronic disease with careful attention to regular physicals. It can be consuming as with any type of medicine but healthy boundaries can prevent burnout and consistently rural physicians report higher satisfaction with the ability to really see good medicine save lives than counterparts in other parts of medicine."

Best wishes, Jake. Please write back with further questions.
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