Rural Medicine part II

May 14, 2013

Follow up on last week's episode, Wilson, Lorraine, and Ilana took on the opportunity to speak to Dr. Gurekas, a rural family doctor in T�miscaming. Dr. Gurekas has been working in T�miscaming, a town of 3000 to 4000 population in Western Quebec since 1977. He described to us how medical services evolved, and the different roles of rural and urban doctors. He highly recommended medical school students to take on placements in rural medicine because it is a great way to learn technical skills and operative procedures.

Moreover, all of our speakers, Dr. Darlene Kitty, Dr. Yogi Sehgal, and Dr. Gurekas, highlighted community as an integral component of practicing rural medicine. As people tend to know each other in a small town, 'public health' is no longer something institutional nor distant from one's life, it can be observed when one is fully immersed into the culture. "Rural medicine is not a job, it's a life style," said Dr. Yogi Sehgal.


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