It's probably in the range of seven or eight, for sure.
You would think we would be able to attract physicians to come and work in our area, but one of the challenges we have there, again, is that we have so many unattached patients in our area that our hospital becomes a walk-in clinic. When you come to do a shift in the ER, you have an incredible number of people coming there for very minor things, with a few serious things sprinkled in among them. The shifts are long and hard. Lots of times physicians come there, and they say they will never be back.
Those are the things that are challenging us. It all stems from not having enough people attached to a family physician.
