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Textbook Of Rural Medicine

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I like this book. It is an introduction to rural medicine and as such I felt like it was cursory in many areas, however I love the attempt at trying to organize rural medicine into an academic subject. Things that I would like to see in the next edition:

1. A solid chapter on telemedicine, research for and against, and the economic struggles faced in its use and installation, as well as a breakdown of how much it costs to get a system up and running.

2. A chapter on community Asset Mapping, the do's and don't's of community organizing. Ethnographic techniques for the physician interested in program development.

3. Alternative economic models that have worked in rural communities. Basically sustainable small business models.

4. The role of research in small towns and the important statistics to measure beyond morbidity and mortality.

There were a few others but these are the ones that stuck out.