title: Family practice in the tropics.
abstract: A one-week practice experience in a remote tropical rain forest area of Colombia is described. Frequency of diagnoses by ICD-9 category are compared between this practice setting and the author's university family medicine residency-based practice in Oklahoma. Implications of the similarities between the practices, as well as the differences, are discussed.
mesh_terms: D003105:Colombia; D003906:Developing Countries; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D009017:Morbidity; D008921:Religious Missions; D014330:Tropical Medicine