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I've been a rural Int Med doc in solo practice for 23 years. I use to never take vacations. In the past several years I have been blessed with a very competent Dr from 75 miles away who works in my office 2 days a week and more if needed. They cover me 24/7 when I'm gone. I dropped inpatient hospital and now feel like I'm on vacation with little evening call and no hospital headaches. You can not count on other practices to cover your patients while you are gone. Even when they say they will, they don't do as good a job. I had the experience of calling back to the office from overseas and found out the Dr who I thought was covering my practice was out on vacation! Not good.