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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (843156)	3/16/2015 4:10:50 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1574005

>> While it's true that doctors straight out of medschool these days prefer the large, urban/suburban areas, a lot of them still go to rural or small communities for various reasons including better pay, less hectic work schedule, and personal preferences. Some of my friends of college chose to go that way, and I guarantee you they were NOT at the "bottom of the medschool class." What is common today is that small hospitals will guarantee a minimum profit for the first 3 or 5 years of a doctor's practice in these underserved areas, which gives them an opportunity to develop a practice while living a reasonable lifestyle during the early years. We have a town in Arkansas which had a population of around 60k, but due to "white flite" has dropped to around 46,000. But they still have one of the few full-service hospitals serving southeast Arkansas. Every new doctor who locates there is given a pretty substantial kickback by the hospital. This not technically a "rural health" facility, but it is providing care for a lot of extremely rural patients. Rural health was the start of the independent mid-level practitioner because true rural areas could not attract physicians. I worked with Nurse Practitioner years ago in a town of 2,000. She had a pretty decent practice, actually but was shut down for inappropriate prescribing. Which is the problem with midlevel providers. They aren't doctors.