Rural areas pose particular challenges but have their own compensations. Doctors might have to travel large distances to visit patients in distant farmhouses but have the compensation of little traffic and beautiful scenery. However, rural practice is not simply a “Peak Practice” style idyll. Doctors who practice a long way from a hospital may have to provide more urgent services themselves, may have to do more on-call duties and may find winter snowdrifts make life more than a little challenging.