Learning to Adapt: Medical student meets rural medicine
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June 3, 2018
Dr. Timothy Newton, D.O., and OSU medical student Philip Ridgway.
Philip Ridgway, having completed his first year at Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, has returned to the Woods County area for a Summer Rural Externship program with Dr. Timothy Newton, D.O., at the Great Salt Plains Health Center in Cherokee.
Eager to return to the area as a doctor upon graduation, Ridgway is using the opportunity provided by OSU to get some early experience in the type of medicine practiced in the area.
"For me, working in the medical field here is all about being resourceful and quick on your feet," Ridgway remarked. "The challenge to use what's ava...
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