Member Opinion Articles
A Crisis: Rural Physician Clinics are Closing
IMS Member Opinion Article A Crisis: Rural Physician Clinics are Closing Michael Kitchell, MD Past president, Iowa Medical Society; past Iowa delegate to the American Medical Association Closures and layoffs across Iowa signal a worsening health care crisis in rural communities. The closures of Traer Family Medicine Clinic and MercyOne’s primary care clinic in Ottumwa,…
When Doctors Say No: Conscience and Care in Modern Medicine
IMS Member Opinion Article When Doctors Say No: Conscience and Care in Modern Medicine Jubilee Hou, OMS III Jubilee Hou is a third-year medical student at Des Moines University. He earned a bachelor’s degree in music performance and psychology in 2020 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completed graduate coursework at the University of Michigan….