title: Profile of the rural surgeon.
authors.affiliation: Department of General, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery, Virginia Mason Clinic, 1100 Ninth Avenue (C6-GSURG), P.O. Box 900, Seattle, WA 98101-2799, USA. gtslwt@vmmc.org
authors.forename: L William
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Traverso
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees / Q000458:organization & administration; D002568:Certification / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002763:Cholecystectomy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013502:General Surgery / Q000379:methods*; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D007587:Job Description; D009009:Montana; D009825:Oklahoma; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014959:Wyoming