Polish-born ACR Member Discusses Appeal of Practicing in a Smaller Community
Mason City, Iowa has become a major destination for foreign-born physicians, many of whom speak highly of the quality of life and the appeal of living and working in a smaller community.
"I didn't know anything about Iowa, or about the Midwest," said ACR member Dariusz Z. Zawierucha, MD, in a May 16 article in the Globe Gazette on the influx of foreign-born physicians into the Mason City area. "After I visited here, it just felt right for me, for the family. It just seems like people are just happier here than I"ve seen in other places."
Zawierucha, raised in Lodz, Poland, said he has been impressed with the quality of health care available in his part of the state and with Mercy Medical Center—North, where he has been a member of the staff since 1999.
"I was impressed more so than with some of the hospitals on the West Coast and East Coast," Zawierucha said in the article. "What we do, I think we do well."
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