Finding medical care in rural areas of Upstate New York could be quite quite a challenge as recently as 20 years ago. Many of the existing country physicians were aging and retiring, and very few were coming along to replace them. But in 1989, a Syracuse-based doctor started a unique program to try and ease the shortage by immersing medical students in a rural environment with hopes they would start or join a practice there. WAER'S Scott Willis takes a look at how it's working...

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