Rural emergency medicine in New Mexico: a physician’s firsthand account
Recently, I was asked to write about my experience as a rural emergency physician in New Mexico. The timing was uncanny: I am in the final shifts of my first job out of my emergency medicine residency on the East Coast, having spent more than four years working in emergency departments across western rural New Mexico, primarily within the Indian Health Service.
Summarizing this experience concisely feels impossible. Every emergency physician …
Rural emergency medicine in New Mexico: a physician’s firsthand account
