Dr. Igor Bidikov has been seeing patients in Heflin since 1997, and he said he loves it. "It's comfortable," he said. "People know you and you know them." As much as he likes working in Heflin, Bidikov said he has had a hard time recruiting doctors to work with him in Heflin. The doctors will come for a little while and then they leave, he said. "It's very disappointing," Bidikov said. The problem is a symptom of a statewide shortage of doctors that has hit rural areas especially hard, say representatives of the medical field.
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