The Rotation of Doctors Due to Lack of Staff Disturbs the Elderly in Salamanca: “with the Doctor, Happy, with the system...”

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The plates of the road change but the atmosphere in the villages is identical: many empty houses and many elderly. Salamanca province resembles so many other rural areas of Castile and Leon victims of depopulation and loss of services, or vice versa. A key to the maintenance of the inhabitants is found in the medical offices and the attention to those elderly whose aches, if aggravated, can push them into the city. Neighbors accept the health mo…