Rural surgery

Affiliations

¹ General Surgery Residency Program, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV. Electronic address: absd@gmail.com.
² Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR.
³ Departments of Population Health and Surgery, University of Kansas School of Medicine-Salina, Salina, KS.
⁴ Department of General Surgery, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC.
⁵ Department of General Surgery, Hopedale Medical Foundation, Hopedale, IL.
⁶ Pulaski Memorial Hospital Medical and Surgical Group, Winemac, IN.
⁷ MidMichigan Physicians Group, Alpena, MI.
⁸ Alpena, MI.

David C Borgstrom et al. Curr Probl Surg. 2022 Aug.

. 2022 Aug;59(8):101173.

doi: 10.1016/j.cpsurg.2022.101173. Epub 2022 Jun 30.

¹ General Surgery Residency Program, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV. Electronic address: absd@gmail.com.
² Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR.
³ Departments of Population Health and Surgery, University of Kansas School of Medicine-Salina, Salina, KS.
⁴ Department of General Surgery, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC.
⁵ Department of General Surgery, Hopedale Medical Foundation, Hopedale, IL.
⁶ Pulaski Memorial Hospital Medical and Surgical Group, Winemac, IN.
⁷ MidMichigan Physicians Group, Alpena, MI.
⁸ Alpena, MI.

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