Spokane medical student Garrett Yarter thinks it might be cool to be a small-town family doctor. He comes by it naturally.
Garrett Yarter: I grew up in Chehalis, Washington, and my dad was a small-town primary care physician that kind of served the Chehalis and Centralia area and so I had Dr. Dad growing up, essentially, and I got to see his impact on our community, and that’s really what kind of kickstarted and inspired me to go into, especially, family medicine specifically.
I mean, there are times growing up where I have little t-ball and little league baseball jerseys that have my last name on the back, and I walk into our local grocery store, and I have some random person come up to me and say, oh, Yarter, on the back of your jersey, your dad’s my doctor. I need to come in to see him for something, and so cool to see you. That was the kind of the community feel that I had growing up…