Urgent and Emergency Family Physicians in Rural Communities

Urgent and emergency family physicians in rural communities.

Health reform and the Affordable Care Act have triggered a renewed interest in strengthening access to primary care services, with a focus on ensuring that the nation has appropriately trained physicians practicing where they are needed. There are about 80 primary care physicians per 100,000 people the United States. Not surprisingly, rural areas have a much lower physician-to-population ratio ...

One in fifteen family physicians principally provide emergency or urgent care.

A small but nontrivial proportion of US family physicians devote most of their time providing emergency or urgent care. With considerable attention focused on expanding access to primary care, it is important to account for providers principally working outside of traditional primary care.

Colonoscopy in rural communities: can family physicians perform the procedure with safe and efficacious results?

BACKGROUND Colonoscopy is becoming increasingly necessary for many patients in screening, diagnosing, and treating colorectal problems. Because the majority of rural doctors are family physicians, providing colonoscopy for the enlarging group of patients with valid indications in rural areas is difficult, unless rural family physicians perform the procedure. Subspecialists in academic settings ...

Physicians providing leadership for rural communities.

Goldsboro Pediatrics provides community leadership by targeting adverse child outcomes such as unplanned pregnancy, chronic mental health disorders, tobacco addiction, child abuse or neglect, school failure or drop out, obesity, and type 2 diabetes. Physicians can address longterm child outcomes during office visits, but we need to collaborate with other groups to assure success. We must provid...

Anesthesia skills for rural family physicians.