Doctor gets rural experience in Saratoga

Dr. Yusuf Ruhallah is about halfway through a month-long stay at the Platte Valley Medical Clinic. He is here to complete the rural medicine portion of his residency which he is completing in Cheyenne at the University of Wyoming Family Practice.

Born and raised in Pleasanton, Calif., in the San Francisco Bay area, Dr. Ruhallah said practicing medicine has always been a goal of his and he wants to go into family medicine.

He went to medical school and completed a one-year internship in Hyderabad, India, which by Indian standards was rural, though much bigger than Saratoga. That initial rural e...