Payed less, work harder.

High medical school debt of nearly $200,000.

Yearning to ratify the continuing issue of primary care in rural areas.

Statistically over 20% of America’s population is rural.

Initiating programs that enrolls high school and college students interested in seeking a medical career in rural areas.

Congress need to offer solutions to end the shortage of rural physicians.

Improving the health of rural Americans can be rewarding within its own rights.

Access to a good primary care should be a natural right that is granted to all.

Nationwide shortage of physicians is becoming a pandemic that only worsening.

Saving the lives of those in need will surpass the sacrifices you made while setting shop in rural areas.

“I don’t want to be a doctor in the suburbs. We’ve got a lot of ‘em. But how many people live and make generations of a life here? [rural areas] It’s just a different reality.”

-John Waits

Source:

Williams, Joseph P. “Working as a Doctor in Rural America Is a ‘Different Reality’.” U.S. News & World Report, U.S. News & World Report, 22 Aug. 2018, 11:36 a.m., www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2018-08-22/rural-doctor-shortage-a-drag-on-community-health.

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