Beyond the scalpel.
Surgical residency training should be changed to provide much needed surgical manpower to rural America. Small-town and rural surgery practices demand that surgeons see and treat their patients as people. If rural surgery could become a real option for young surgeons, it could bring about a change in the sometimes adversarial relationship between patients and their physicians.
Field Clinic, Centreville, MS 39631.
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D001294:Attitude to Health; D002321:Career Choice; D013502:General Surgery / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008507:Medically Underserved Area; D008922:Mississippi; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012423:Rural Health