Small Town America

WoW!  It's been over a month since I've blogged.  And well, I've been working.  6 days a week, 12 hour days - doesn't leave much time for blogging.  I got 8 days off in 2 months.  Thankfully that stretch is over.

Now I've moved on to small town america.  How would one describe Willows, CA?
population ~5,000-6,000 people
1-2 main streets (4 stop lights)
Wal Mart, Starbucks, and fast food
anything else?

Where I am at for the next 4 weeks - Safford, AZ
population ~9,000 people
2 main streets (>4 stop lights)
Super Wal Mart, Starbucks - inside a Safeway, and fast food
hospital and medical center where family docs do it all!

I am at the start of my rural family medicine month is Safford, Arizona, a near equivalent to Willows, just a little bigger.  The cool thing here is that family docs do everything.  Today was my first day and it included: inducing labor, rounding on patients in the hospital, going to clinic, seeing a patient in the Emergency department, admitting 2 patients to the hospital, and now waiting for the deliver to happen.
Crazy?!!!!

I'm hoping this busy trend keeps up and I'm able to do and see a lot.
The house I'm staying at doesn't have internet, so I may not be able to upload photos until after I get back to Tucson.