Baltimore Sun colleague Stephanie Desmon has a nice story in Monday's paper on a Christian doctor who brings a sense of mission to his work in rural Garrett County. Family physician Ken Buczynski is one of just four physicians who deliver babies in the state's largest county by area, which makes for a hamster-wheel existence in the wooded mountains at the tip of the Maryland panhandle.

"I always felt called to this kind of practice," Buczynski, who attends the Faith Evangelical Free Church with his pregnant wife and their three young children, tells Desmon. "And you really need that calling because to go to a recruiting fair and say, come to rural America where everyone will know your car, your business, your house, what kind of chicken you buy at Wal-Mart, and you'll take call 168 hours at a time and there's no mall for an hour and a half. ...

"When you start talking about those things, it's a real detractor to a lot of physicians."

As Desmon describes it, medicine is Buczynski's ministry. He sees "patients as more than just a physical entity," often praying with them and for them.

"I's not a billable procedure, but I like to provide it," he says.

Read the rest of the story at baltimoresun.com.