Anyone (in the USA) or abroad still see a small town doctor?

Does anyone else still see a small town/small clinic Doctor ?

There is a new PCP clinic that is opening up in my area. It’s just going to be the doctor and his MA. He said that he wanted to do this because he grew up in the area and knew yhat there was a shortage of doctor‘s. Being someone who is fairly young, I was seen in clinics that had seceral doctors for most of my life. So this is exciting to me. i did have a super great pediatrician (whom I’ve written about) who did call me from home a few times, but alas he also felt they constraints of big hospital medicine, which is one reason he retired. I’m decided to switch to the new clinic at the end of the month. I’m hoping that this means I’ll get more than 10-20 minutes with my new doctor. I’m kind of imagining it like the movie Doc Hollywood (91 with Michael J. Fox. - AMAZING if you haven’t seen it.

all of this makes me wonder. Are there still any small town doctors out there that don’t treat you like a number?

I've never lived in a small town, and I'm curious what the differences are like with doctors. I'm sure the experience is much friendlier and more personal. Are they more or less concerned about modesty than big city doctors?

I live in the middle of the second largest city in Belgium, but by this definition I apparently see a ‘small town’ family doctor. He doesn't have an assistant, associates, nurse or secretary or anyone in his employ. He works totally alone.

To be fair, this is how many general practitioners still work, though it must be said that group practices are becoming more and more common.

I live in a city, but I go to a very small clinic. When I started going, there were only two doctors and a nurse practitioner. One of the doctors has since retired. Now it's just the doc and the NP. For my last physical, the NP did it. She was not quite as thorough as the doc, but I was naked under the gown.

The doctor at the clinic is in his mid-60s and pretty thorough with his exams.

I grew up in a fairly small town, but there were three doctors at the clinic.

I live in a rural area with a very low population (UK). I know and have always known our GPs and practice nurses, and the other staff, socially and professionally. It can be a little odd at first to see them after a more intimate examination or problem, but that's where the ‘professionalism’ cuts in and we don't cross lines. I like it, we all know it other well - and you can't really mislead them however much you'd like to sometimes!

The situation with rural medicine in the U.S. is dismal. All kinds of available facts/figures/stats do not paint a rosey picture for “small town”/rural Doctor's/medical care.Pitiful. Been like that for decades.