Comments on: Best States in Which to Practice Medicine — UPDATE

By: Alpine, RN

Alpine, RN — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:24:59 +0000

NH winters ROCK! Plus you can get lovely snowmobile accidents for trauma, car versus moose accidents, AND the biggest hospital is actually quite pretty!

By: JustADoc

JustADoc — Thu, 24 May 2012 17:41:01 +0000

Methinks you misread the statement. Those were listed as bad places to practice.

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 24 May 2012 10:00:11 +0000

NH winters don’t suck…yes they are cold, but beautiful. There is tons of outdoor recreation in the winter (year round really). We have mountains, lakes, oceanfront. You just need the right clothing and winter can be enjoyed!

By: MamaOnABudget

MamaOnABudget — Wed, 23 May 2012 21:54:58 +0000

My first two kids were born in South Dakota. We’re blessed to have employment that we love now in CO, but I’d be back in SD – bad weather and everything, in a heartbeat if we were looking for work again.

By: EDdoc

EDdoc — Wed, 23 May 2012 18:51:44 +0000

It’s hard to take a list of “best states to practice in” seriously when they include the judicial hellholes of Arizona, Florida, and Washington DC.

By: Don

Don — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:45:30 +0000

Idaho is a great place to live, if you like outdoor activities. It isn’t a place to practice medicine unless you are comfortable not having the latest medical equipment and resources at your fingertips.

My small town (5,500) has the only hospital in a County that is physically as big as the State of Delaware, but only has about 11,000 people total. The only doctors in the whole county are in my town. We have good ambulance with paramedics. On the highway north, they are the last paramedics for about 200 miles.

Our ER has 4 beds. It is staffed by ER Docs from Boise. They have a CT scanner, but the only MRI is a mobile one that comes into town 2 days a week.

The counties north and south of us don’t have hospitals of their own.

There is no burn unit in the whole State. Last week a burn victim, from across the river in Oregon, had to be flown over 500 miles to Salt Lake City for a burn unit.

Three of our local family physicians are getting older in age and might be looking to retire.