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UW med students learn about rural medicine from Dr. Andy Castrodale and the team at CMC
Two first-year University of Washington School of Medicine students, Dana and Paxton, along with third-year student Erin Boland, middle, talk with their teacher, Dr. Andy Castrodale, at Coulee Medical Center Dec. 4. - Scott Hunter photo
Growing up on the Colville Indian Reservation, Andy Castrodale had no intention of staying in rural Eastern Washington.
"I was going to get out and I wasn't coming back," he said.
And yet, for 21 years he's been practicing family medicine in Grand Coulee.
Castrodale laughed.
"I also hadn't planned to be a physician."
He studied microbiology as an undergrad at the University of Washington, thinking...
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