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. 2000 Nov;173(5):348-51.
doi: 10.1136/ewjm.173.5.348.

Physicians and rural America

R A Rosenblatt  1 , L G Hart
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Physicians and rural America

R A Rosenblatt et al. West J Med. 2000 Nov.
No abstract available

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Figure a
© Douglas Diekema
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Figure 1
Active physicians per 100,000 population by location, 1995. From AMA from BHPr ARF data, 1997.
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Figure 2
Active physicians per 100,000 population by year and location, 1940 through 1995. From AMA from BHPr ARF data, 1997.
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Figure 3
Patient care physicians per 100,000 population by location and specialty, 1995. From AMA from BHPr ARF data, 1997.
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Figure b
© Douglas Diekema
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Figure 4
Percentage of primary care and non-primary care physicians for selected years, 1931 through 1996. From AMA from BHPr ARF data, 1997.
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Figure 5
Male to female family or general physicians by graduation cohort, 1997. From Ellsbury KE, Doescher MP, Hart LG. US medical schools and the rural family physician gender gap. Fam Med 2000;32:331-337.
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