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Thursday, March 27, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Rural communities find doctors scarce . . .
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Another problem is that political pressure has grown over the last 10 to 12 years. Walker said. People focus their frustration on the medical schools to get doctors to the communities, he said, but the schools can't force the doctors to practice in these towns.
Walker said he feared the possibility that would have prompted him to practice in a small town.
Waxman said that if more doctors took their residence training in the smaller communities, they would realize the attractiveness of those areas. Many small communities can offer cultural and educational opportunities, he said.
Walker said many doctors wouldn't go to small towns because of the work load involved with being the only doctor in the area.
"Doctors want to lead reasonably normal lives. They want to have another
professional around to talk to, and many
passed away to go to and to town by
themselves. Walker was a friend.
Waxman said a long-term goal of the Med Center was to set up satellite health care systems. Such systems would allow doctors to communicate with peers and receive continual education in new medical techniques.
Because of the problem of distributing doctors evenly throughout the state, a committee of family practitioners was created. We said, he said. He said the plan had been sent to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, but hadn't been publicly released yet.
Basically, the plan identifies towns that have already been established as trade centers for surrounding areas. These centers are deliberately upgraded for medical care.
"We call this regionalization of primary
care health services," Walker said. "Kansas is beautiful because the trade centers are laid out 20 to 30 miles apart. Regionalization has already happened as or as trade, and these communities have something to build on, to attract the doctor to.
The Med Center can only suggest solutions and give leadership, he said. The key is to get these communities to upgrade themselves to attract the doctors.
Joseph Kyner, assistant professor of internal medicine, and Norton J. Greenberger, chairman of the department of medicine, have organized an outreach program to acquaint doctors completing residencies with doctors working out in the state.
Kyner said questionnaires were filled out by officials of communities with information on gun violence.
possibilities. These are kept on file so that doctors seeking placement can refer to them when deciding whether to be interviewed by community officials.
But only so much can be done by the Med Center and its faculty through the outreach program to help towns recruit doctors, Kynner said.
"Our prime concern is to come up with quality doctors, as well as quantity." Kynner said. "Incentives and other things that promise success will be the same for government control."
Joseph Kimmel, associate dean for curriculum at the Med Center, said some students who have not enrolled in
conditions that would attract doctors.
"It's becoming more of the thing to do, to set up practice in the smaller towns," Kimmel said. "But only about 35 per cent of our students stay in Kansas."
He said a bill before the Kansas state council cost $62 million for station construction to help stay and practice.
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