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Ben Edwards, 33: small-town family doctor.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-SEP-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Ben Edwards, 33: small-town family doctor.(The Working Life: STORIES FROM THE 9 TO 5)

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When I decided to be a doctor, I knew I wanted to do small-town medicine. During my residency, my wife and I traveled to probably thirty different small towns in Texas, and every town we looked at had at least one doctor--except for Post.

Both my granddads were small-town country doctors. They could do anything and everything, from delivering babies and amputating extremities to setting broken bones and treating heart attacks. That's what I grew up knowing a doctor was-someone who could treat everything. During college, it was always in the back of my mind that it might be something I would do.

I changed my major five times trying to figure out if there was anything else that tickled my fancy, but I just kept coming back to medicine. It's kind of a cliche answer, but I wanted to help people.

My day starts with a p fie of charts and paperwork. There is a tremendous amount of paperwork--all sorts of forms that the...

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