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Saturday, July 10, 2004
Not law but interesting - Appalachia gets first crop of own doctors
"Appalachia gets first crop of own doctors: 40 from Pikeville school begin opening offices" is the headline to a story today in the Louisville Courier-Journal. It starts:
PIKEVILLE, Ky. — Painfully aware that recruitment programs alone weren't enough to fill the need for physicians, people in central Appalachia pulled off a radical plan.They created their own medical school and began training their own doctors.
The first 40 homegrown physicians from the Pikeville College School of Osteopathic Medicine finished their residency programs earlier this month and have begun opening offices in communities throughout the mountain region. Hundreds more are in the pipeline.
"It's been a long road," said Dr. Thad Manning, who will begin his practice next month at Regina, a tiny coalfield community about 10 miles south of Pikeville. "You're talking quite a long period that you put your life on hold, without work, without income, but there's just such a need for medical care in this area."
Posted by Marcia Oddi on July 10, 2004 07:01 PM
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