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My husband is a family physician who trained at OHSU (with the wonderful Lisa Dodson!!) and has practiced for six years in Vancouver and Portland. In about a month we are moving to the small Wyoming town of Jackson Hole where he grew up, so he can help to build a hospital-owned multispecialty primary care clinic there. Most of the primary care doctors who are there now arrived in 70s and hung up a shingle to practice independently. Now they are all ready to retire, but can't find young doctors willing to take over their practices. Even though the town is a desirable place to live, the combination of high cost of living there, med school debt load and growing liability costs associated with rural practice make it financially unrealistic for young primary care doctors to practice there under the old independent clinic model.

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