John Barrasso of Wyoming, a practicing doctor, said the bill would kill jobs and raise health care costs.

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Essentially, that means nobody wants a solo practicing doctor and nobody in the physician workforce wants to be one, Merritt Hawkins said.

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"As a medical doctor practicing in this field, I hold sacred the bond of confidentiality that exists between a patient and doctor, " he said.

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He was also barred from practicing as a sports doctor for four years, but under the Spanish legal system his jail term will be suspended.

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Now retired, his long hours practicing the organ are punctuated with doctor visits to receive Lupron hormone therapy.

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When healthcare search firm Merritt Hawkins helped hospitals look for doctors just a few years ago, about one in four clients were looking for a solo practicing physician, often a primary care doctor who would open up shop in a small community.

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Yet he would still be practicing medicine today if not for the single-minded persistence of a junior doctor, Andrew Bower, who, unlike virtually everyone else in the university hospital, strongly suspected Colin Bouwer of murder and worked with the police to bring him to justice.

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