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Rural Areas Tough to Sell to Doctors

BANGOR, Maine - Recruiting primary care doctors is even more of a challenge in northern Maine than it is in the southern half of the state, according to Kevin Lewis of the Maine Primary Care Association. The state's rural charms may be lost on young doctors who are worried about relocating to areas they see as professionally isolated, socially confined and geographically remote, he.....

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