Friday, October 3, 2008
Rural Family Medicine
I never thought I would consider family medicine, the lowest paying of all areas of medicine, in a rural area. But the other day I went to a physician panel the other day where I heard what it is like to be a family physician in an urban area and a rural area. It turns out in Canada that family docs can also sub-specalize with anesthesia, OB/GYN, surgical assists, ER etc to create variety and expand their practice. The things they get to do make it seem like family docs have the best of both worlds. In other words they get to build relationships with patients while doing a variety of procedures. I am now seriously considering working in a field like this. And in a rural area physicians get to run hospitals and be involved in group practice with an overhead of 25% and make around $200,000 I am very impressed. I am not totally convinced but it is definitely something to think about!
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"I never thought I would consider family medicine, the lowest paying of all areas of medicine, in a rural area."
Isn't like a radiologist payed less???
No, radiology pays quite well actually. It's considered one of the lifestyle specialties because you can work from 9-5 and make a decent amount of money, it depends on the city you work in though.
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