Dr. Joseph Hathaway, Jr. of the Gastroenterology Institute in Statesboro said his move to Bulloch County a year ago was instigated by the need to return to practicing medicine the way he always envisioned it. "When I was working in a large gastroenterology practice in Savannah, I did not spend a lot of time with my patients," he said. "The way the practice was set up, a lot of the face time with patients was done by a physician's assistant, and I really missed that one-on-one interaction."