Physicians pushed to the brink

With more patients and paperwork - and often less pay - than ever, primary care doctors are faced with an especially dire situation in this area

By Markian Hawryluk / The Bulletin
May 17, 2009

Editor’s note: This is the first of an occasional series about health care in Central Oregon.

Earlier this month, Dr. Jeff Boggess, a family practice doctor at Bend Memorial Clinic’s Westside Clinic, spent an hour with a patient from Prineville. The 90-year-old woman had....

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