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Diminishing options – Strained medical practices present challenges

By Melissa Wagoner When Kristen Storer received notice that her family’s primary care physician, Dr. Tim Peters, would be retiring early due to staffing shortages at his clinic, Northwest Family Medicine in Silverton, she was dismayed.  “I kind of panicked because they didn’t give very much notice,” Storer said.  Reliant on monthly prescriptions for her husband’s ADHD, Storer knew the […]

Full circle: Kelsey Hupp returns home to start medical career

By Kristine Thomas When Kelsey Hupp was 7 years old, she crafted a plan to avoid getting her blood drawn at the doctor’s office. Telling the nurse that she wasn’t allowed near her with the needle, she pointed to her family physician, Dr. Rodney Orr, and declared only he could draw her blood. “She had never seen Dr. Orr do […]