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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 2017
Rural America is searching for more doctors
Creighton University School
of Medicine in Nebraska. He
loved the variety and the awe-
some responsibility.
“In one day, I may care for
a 9-month-old and a 90-year-
old in different types of sur-
gery,” Wick said. “I get to take
care of people at their most criti-
cal moments. I watch their heart
rate. I literally breathe for them.”
After fi nishing residency at
Oregon Health & Science Uni-
versity, he and his wife Sarah
considered where to practice.
Richard felt comfortable with
rural life, but Sarah had grown
up in Portland and wasn’t as
eager to leave the metropo-
lis. In recruiting physicians
to rural areas, it’s a common
issue — a partners’ employ-
ment opportunities or simply
the affi nity for perks of urban
life often come into play.
The couple, expecting a
child and tired of Portland traf-
fi c, eventually embraced an
anesthesiologist position at
Walla Walla’s Providence St.
Mary Medical Center.
Many young
physicians fl ock
to big cities
By KATHY ANEY
EO Media Group
PENDLETON — When
anesthesiologist Richard Wick
opted to practice in rural Walla
Walla after his residency last
summer, the decision put him
at odds with most of his class-
mates. Young physicians tend
to fl ock to jobs in big cities.
Wick, who grew up in Pend-
leton, dreamed of being a doc-
tor since boyhood and practic-
ing in a rural area was always
on the radar. His father, Ernest
Wick, ran the radiology depart-
ment at St. Anthony Hospital.
The boy hung around the hos-
pital, even shadowing Pend-
leton general surgeon John
McBee. Wick always fi gured
he would become a surgeon,
but changed course during an
anesthesiology rotation at the
E.J. Harris/ EO Media Group
Richard Wick, an anesthesiologist at Providence St. Mary
Medical Center in Walla Walla, Wash. Wick, who grew up in
Pendleton, dreamed of being a doctor since boyhood and
practicing in a rural area was always on the radar.
“I love it,” Wick said.
It’s a happy outcome in
a time of doctor shortages in
rural America. The shortage,
especially of primary care phy-
sicians, continues to worsen.
That is partially due to an
imbalance in pay between pri-
mary care doctors and special-
ists. According to Medscape’s
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
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Warrenton man arrested for sex abuse
A Warrenton man known
for giving candy to children
while volunteering around
town has been arrested for
numerous sex abuse charges.
Carl Axel Hagnas , 68,
allegedly abused three chil-
dren in the area.
The crimes allegedly
took place between 1992 and
2015. He allegedly abused
one young child eight sep-
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1996. Those crimes were fi rst
reported in 2005.
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Marcos Jamies-Radilla, 24,
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Eight people were arrested
on drug charges Friday in
Seaside.
The Clatsop County Sher-
iff’s Offi ce arrested Todd Nor-
man, 48, Jessica Bouvia, 34,
and Chase Franklin, 28, at
a residence at 84484 Neca-
nicum View Drive. Charges
include delivery of meth-
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and Preston Stewart, 36 —
were arrested on drug-related
charges.
Police had been investigat-
ing the case for about a month.
The S heriff’s O ffi ce seized
two vehicles, surveillance
equipment, two fi rearms,
digital scales, drug records,
$7,000 cash, two grams of
h eroin and nearly half a pound
of m ethamphetamine.
Warrenton
June 3, 1947 — Aug. 23, 2017
Bob left behind his wife, Bob-
bie Sanderson; his mother, Vala-
rie Sanderson; his grandchil-
dren, Carysa and Maggie Corder
of Seaside, Oregon, Geordyn and
Cailin Bryan of Korea, Jasper and
Briella Bryan; a son-in-law, Gary
Bryan and his wife, Monique,
of Tenino, Washington; a niece,
Kelli, and her daughter, Shelby
Rae, of Vancouver, Washington;
and a sister-in-law and caregiver,
Jerri Starr.
ON THE RECORD
DUII
• At 10 p.m. Thursday,
Matthew Grant Friesen, 38,
of Portland, was arrested by
the Clatsop County Sheriff’s
Offi ce on the 36000 block of
U.S. Highway 26 and charged
with driving under the infl u-
ence of intoxicants.
DEATH
Aug. 24, 2017
STRINGER,
Edward
Wayne, 79, of Troutdale, died
in Seaside. Caldwell’s Funeral
& Cremation Arrangement
Center of Seaside is in charge
of the arrangements.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
MONDAY
Seaside City Council, 7 p.m.,
City Hall, 989 Broadway.
Robert Sanderson
He was preceded in death by a
daughter, Jackie L. Bryan; his fa-
ther, William C. Sanderson; and a
sister, Pat Sanderson.
Bob was a very loving and caring
man to family and friends; he was
a beautiful soul. He will be greatly
missed by all.
Please, in lieu of fl owers, donate
to the Clatsop County Animal Shel-
ter. Bob loved his dogs.
A memorial was held Sunday,
Aug. 27, 2017.
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The Clatsop County Sher-
iff’s Offi ce had been inves-
tigating Hagnas for multiple
years along with the Warren-
ton Police Department. He
was indicted Wednesday on
12 charges of fi rst-degree sex
abuse and one count of sec-
ond-degree sodomy. The
S heriff’s O ffi ce arrested him
Friday.
Hagnas , who was convicted
in 1991 on two charges of
manufacturing and delivering
a controlled substance, would
face at least 81 years in prison
if convicted on all charges.
The indictment includes a bail
amount of $250,000.
OBITUARIES
Robert Sanderson
TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
NATIONAL CITIES
girls allegedly
took place in
2015.
Known by
many as the
“candy man,”
Hagnas man-
Carl Axel
ages
rental
Hagnas
properties
and performs other small jobs
around the area. He worked
and later volunteered at the
Ocean View Cemetery, where
some of the crimes allegedly
took place.
The families of the children
he allegedly abused all know
him as a friend, according to a
Clatsop County press release.
By JACK HEFFERNAN
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City
Baker City
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Brookings
Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newberg
Newport
North Bend
2017 Physician Compensation
Report, orthopedists, cardi-
ologists, plastic surgeons and
urologists all earn $400,000
or more on average. But pedi-
atricians, internists and fam-
ily medicine doctors make
$225,000 or less.
Maggie Elehwany, the
National Rural Health Associ-
popular Pendleton physician
who is pondering retirement
in the next couple of years.
He worries about his patients
when that time comes. He
doesn’t have hard numbers but
he knows his town is short on
docs.
“People are always calling
to get in,” Sitz said. “I don’t
know what my patients are
going to do.”
Sitz grew up in Ontario,
so as a young internist he felt
no qualms about practicing in
a rural area. Though Pendle-
ton wasn’t his fi rst choice, he
soon grew attached to this little
place where “people get along
with each other” and he has
stayed for 40 years and count-
ing. The locale was close to
good hunting and fi shing and
proved a great place to raise
his and wife Michelle’s three
children. He doesn’t mind see-
ing his patients around town
and his home phone number is
in the book.
“People don’t abuse that,”
he said.
Eight arrested in Seaside on drug charges
Roseburg
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Medford
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overhead from Cassiopeia in the north, through the
Summer Triangle overhead, to Sagittarius in the
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Precipitation
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Normal month to date ....................... 0.94"
Year to date .................................... 50.05"
Normal year to date ........................ 37.88"
Aug 29
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Astoria through Sunday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 83°/49°
Normal high/low ........................... 69°/52°
Record high ............................ 88° in 1894
Record low ............................. 43° in 1955
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ation’s vice president of gov-
ernment affairs, said rural
America needs more doctors.
“Twenty percent of the
population is scattered over 90
percent of the land mass,” she
said. “This 20 percent of the
population has nine percent
of the physicians.” In addi-
tion, “there’s a higher percent-
age of chronic disease in rural
America. They’re poorer and
sicker.”
Oregon isn’t quite that
low. Based on Oregon Med-
ical Board licensures and
the OHSU Offi ce of Rural
Health, 10,247 of Oregon doc-
tors practice in urban areas
and 2,362 work in rural areas
(defi ned as 10 miles or more
away from a population center
of at least 40,000).
The national shortage could
grow to 45,000 by the year
2020, according to the rural
health association . Since 2010,
more than 80 rural hospitals
have closed, including Walla
Walla General Hospital.
Internist Norman Sitz is a
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