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Our Alumni
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Class of 2006
Front row, left to right: Purnima Mohan, MD, Amit Mohan, MD, Hilary Nash, MD,
Shyam Akkulugari, MD, Erin Schreier, DO, Gregg Klosener, DO
Back row, left to right: Hina Syed, MD, Adedapo Oduye, MD, Libby Hineman, MD,
Brad Chrisjohn, DO, Joan Covault, DO, Trevor King, MD
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OB Track experiences pay off in the rural setting for Libby Hineman, MD, graduate of the Class of 2006
Dr. Hineman: Medicine Woman Young mom trades in city life, becomes first female to practice at Scott County clinic By Kathy Hanks The Hutchinson News
SCOTT CITY - Wednesday was a day of firsts at Scott County Hospital.
Dr. Libby Hineman became the first female to practice at the clinic, which for the first time in its history has four physicians on staff.
Hineman, 29, a general physician/obstetrician, may be part of the newest crop of doctors arriving on the medical scene, but her desire to practice rural medicine has made her an enigma. It also makes her a bright spot on an otherwise bleak horizon of young people migrating out of western Kansas.
Sitting in her office in the clinic, which is attached to the 25-bed hospital, Hineman was beginning her practice with enough patients to keep her busy, but not overwhelmed, on the first day. But the doctor was raring to go. "There are things I'll be able to do here that would be harder to do in a city where doctors refer patients on," Hineman said. "I like that there will be more continuity of care."
Perfect timing
Scott County Hospital Administrator Mark Burnett described the addition of Hineman to the staff as a "serendipitous arrangement." She and her husband, Andy, chose to move to Scott City from Kansas City to be closer to their family and to the Lane County farm he plans to work in partnership with his father, Don Hineman. The couple also knew they wanted to raise their 9-month-old son, Kalo, in a small town. All of these factors make for what Burnett described as an "absolutely spectacular" alignment.
"I have really good feelings about this," he said of Hineman, who will become part of what is already a stable group of physicians. Dr. Daniel Dunn has been on staff for 27 years; Dr. Robert Rosin, 18 years; and Dr. Chris Cupp, a Scott City native, returned to practice two years ago. Hineman will join Dunn and Cupp in the delivery of babies. By December, Burnett estimates they will have delivered 55 babies at the hospital in 2006.
Hineman delivered 120 babies during her residency, which she completed in September at Research Medical Center, Kansas City, Mo. She said the fact that she experienced her own maternity and childbirth less than a year ago will enable her to better relate to pregnant women. Also, she is now a parent of an infant. The experiences she has while raising her son only can help her be a better doctor, she said.
Making progress
According to Dunn, the hospital had been trying for a long time to bring a female doctor in.
"We were close when Tana Goering, who was from Scott City, was about through with medical school," he said. "But her husband had a law practice in Wichita, and they decided to stay there." Goering went on to have a medical show on KSNW.
Burnett thought Hineman might be the only female physician in a 100-mile radius.
"I don't want to offend anyone, but I don't believe there is another female," Burnett said. Dr. Maura Welch, at the Women's Clinic L.L.P., Garden City, left in October to join the Women's Health Group in Manhattan.
All three doctors can perform cesarean sections, and the hospital has a staffed nurse anesthetist. Dunn said locally they have the ability to handle many high-risk pregnancies; however, worse case scenarios can be referred to St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City or on to a Wichita hospital.
Making room for Hineman hasn't been a problem, Dunn said, because the clinic originally was built to house four physicians. With the anticipation of the fourth physician, and the increased volume of patients, though, Burnett said the hospital was expanding the "big picture." Strategic planning has brought expansion to an offsite location - on the south edge of town where several departments have relocated. There now will be room at the main campus to expand the space used for specialty clinics.
"What's good for the hospital is good for the community," Burnett said. "Rural health care is pivotal to rural America. We are one of the largest, if not the largest, employer in the county with 176 employees."
The day has come
As Hineman prepared to see her fourth patient of the day, a congratulatory flower arrangement arrived at her office, where an old-fashioned doctor's bag sat on a table. There was nothing inside the bag, she said, but it's the image it conveys that's important. She hopes to model her practice after her first mentor, Dr. Brian Wolfe, whom she knew growing up in Iola. He had had a bag like that one.
"We went to church together, and he was a family friend," she said. Wolfe, who was a visible member of the community, even allowed her to go on house calls with him when she was first dreaming of heading to medical school.
On Wednesday, she had finally arrived, and she grabbed her stethoscope, hung it around her neck and headed off to examine another patient. "I'm excited," she said. "I've worked a long time to get to this point."
11/18/2006; 02:37:01 AM |
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