White Paper Offers Physician's Perspective on Rural Medicine--Almost 2,000 Physicians Responded to LocumTenens.com Survey

"Practicing Medicine in Rural America," a LocumTenens.com white paper now available through HealthLeaders Media (http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/archive/WHP/Whitepapers.html) offers the physician's perspective in the context of other rural health care data. The publication highlights a late-2007 physician survey of the same name to which 1,965 U.S. physicians responded. It validate how the lifestyle concerns of today's physician exacerbate the U.S. physician shortage for communities of 50,000 people or fewer.

Alpharetta, GA (PRWEB) April 9, 2008 -- A white paper now available from recruiting firm LocumTenens.com through HealthLeaders Media (http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/archive/WHP/Whitepapers.html) offers the physician's perspective on practicing rural medicine in the context of rural health care data from the federal government and other sources.

Entitled "Practicing Medicine in Rural America," the white paper highlights a late-2007 physician survey of the same name to which 1,965 U.S. physicians responded. Both the survey results and the LocumTenens.com white paper validate how the lifestyle concerns prevalent among today's physicians exacerbate the U.S. physician shortage for communities of 50,000 people or fewer. (For an overview of the survey data, please visit http://www.locumtenens.com/whitepaper08.)

Practicing Medicine in Rural America

"The majority of respondents with rural health experience (almost 800 respondents) said they prefer practicing rural medicine, but prefer urban/suburban living," LocumTenens.com Senior Vice President Pamela McKemie said. She highlighted physician survey statistics including these:
- Almost half (48%) prefer practicing rural medicine vs. 36% who prefer urban/suburban practice.
- More than half (54%) prefer urban/suburban living vs. almost a third (30%) who prefer rural living.

In addition to arguments against several popular myths about practicing rural medicine, the LocumTenens.com white paper offers a compendium of data on rural life and rural health care. It presents the "pros" and "cons" as viewed by both physicians and rural health experts.

Founded in 1995, LocumTenens.com is a full-service physician/CRNA recruiting firm specializing in anesthesiology jobs, cardiology jobs, psychiatry jobs, radiology jobs, surgery jobs and CRNA jobs with U.S. hospitals, medical groups and community health centers. LocumTenens.com, which does more than 60% of its business in rural America, is part of the Jackson Healthcare family of companies. To learn more, visit http://www.locumtenens.com/welcome.

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