This state, so sparsely populated in parts that five counties have no doctors at all, has struggled for years to encourage young doctors to relocate to rural communities, where health problems are often exacerbated by a lack of even the most basic care. Read the Article>

Laramie, Wyoming, is a long way from Waycross, Georgia. Dr. Joel Higgins has mixed feelings about departing the Peach State. Born in Augusta, he practiced in Waycross as an ob/gyn from 2001 until last December. “I’m leaving with a bitter taste,’’ Higgins says. “I like Georgia.’’But a deteriorating financial situation drove him to move to Wyoming, he says. Read the Article>

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Doctors save lives, but they can sometimes be insufferable know-it-alls who bully nurses and do not listen to patients. Medical schools have traditionally done little to screen out such flawed applicants or to train them to behave better, but that is changing. Read the Article>

Under the federal healthcare reform legislation, mental-health screening is listed as a free, preventive-care service. Read the Article>

Opinion by Merrill Matthews

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The Obama administration said Tuesday that it had shelved plans for a survey in which “mystery shoppers” posing as patients would call doctors’ offices to see how difficult it was to get appointments. Read the Article>

Doctors’ representatives have called for the government’s health bill to be withdrawn – despite a plea from their leader warning that concessions already gained could be lost.

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An attorney for a New Jersey doctors' group is arguing in court the new federal health care reform law is unconstitutional. Read the Article>

In one of the first concrete steps to remake the way medical care is delivered, hospitals are competing to hire primary-care physicians, trying to lure them from their private practices to work as salaried employees alongside specialists. Read the Article>