Recruitment and retention of rural physicians: how much progress have we made?

must also be willing to evaluate critically the practices of certified nurse midwives, who might have an even lower rate of intervention in maternity care while they maintain equally high quality.IS Finally, because today's medical environment, despite its shortcomings, has a greater emphasis on cost-effective care, family physicians might have their greatest opportunity to promote the lowintervention style of maternity care they have so long advocated. Arming themselves with this kind of research will be essential in this effort.