I chose my career at the age of four, graduated from Medical School 1979 at age 26 in my native Sweden at Uppsala University. I emigrated to the United States in 1981. First Board Certified in Family Medicine in the U.S. in 1984, I recertified in 2018.
Growing up and training in Sweden’s Socialized Medicine system gave me insights into how medicine can serve the common good differently and exposed me to a different system of Public Health. Practicing small town medicine over here for more than 35 years and seeing three or four generations of many families has given me a rural American perspective fewer and fewer physicians have today.
Since 2008 I have published very regularly on A Country Doctor Writes, a blog about the life of a rural physician, my clinical challenges and victories and the frustrations and brainstorms of a frontline physician. My writing has reached readers across the globe and has been republished on many sites, including The Healthcare Blog and KevinMD. I have published the first three in a series of “A Country Doctor Writes” books as well as started to post videos on this site.
For speaking, writing and other non-clinical purposes, email me at contact(at)acountrydoctorwrites.com. This site does not give personalized medical advice.
