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Residency programs help boost numbers of primary care physicians in Montana

September 3, 2018 /

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Thirteen Montana counties, 12 of them on the eastern side of the state, don’t have any physicians, according to the Montana Medical Association. Another eight, spread more evenly across the state, have one doctor apiece.

Dr. Brook Murphy, a native of Eastern Montana, knows how important medical care is to a small town.

Now in his first year of residency in Billings as a family physician, Murphy plans to practice in the state after he completes his three years with the Montana Family Medicine Residency program at RiverStone Health.

"I want to serve underserved patients, whether that’s in rural Montana or here in Billings," Murphy said recently in an interview, dressed in his crisp, new white lab coat. "I definitely have a pull to rural medicine because I grew up in Glendive."

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