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Greg D. Randolph MD and Donald E. Pathman MD
Trends in the Rural-Urban Distribution of General Pediatricians
Pediatrics 2001; 107: e18 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]
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yuval Brandstetter   (13 October 2004)

the Pediatrician among the family Practitioners 13 October 2004
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Leumit HMO Israel

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pninit2{at}yahoo.com yuval Brandstetter

The article does not address the reasons for the paucity of General Pediatricians in Rural counties. Having been one for one year in Rural Indiana I can attest to the fact that Rural American medical scene is ruled by the Family Practitioners. FP's reagrd Pediatricians as a dire threat from the bread and butter point of view and use all tactics to create an inhospitable climate for independent General Pediatricians, inclusive of denial of service to the mothers who dare take their baby to a Pediatrician. General Pediatrics thrives only where Quality of care is taken seriously by the patients' mothers, which usually requires a higher level of education and achievement. Rural America, as much as Indigenous America cannot recognize those fine points. consequently a child whose only symptom was a Febrile Seizure was flown by Medevac to the big city, simply because the FP was not a Pediatrician who has seen a thousand Febrile Seizures during his training.