Rural Healthcare

Jim Cox, Iain Mungall

Radcliffe Medical Press; £22.50, pp 184

ISBN 1 85775 267 8

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For half my working life I was a general practitioner in inner London. Then I worked partly in Africa and partly “locuming” round Britain, from St Austell to Papa Westray. I found myself in a different world, one that this book powerfully reminds me of. The distances; the loneliness, sometimes welcome, sometimes not; the independence and self sufficiency of the people

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