KevinMD November 23, 2024
It was recently reported that barely 10 percent of U.S. doctors work in rural health care. That number is continuing to shrink, while over 20 percent of the U.S. population lives in rural areas, and more than 80 percent of rural Americans are considered medically underserved.
There are many reasons why doctors, mid-levels, and other health care workers are avoiding rural practice opportunities.
The one I want to focus on today is “fear.”
Fear takes many shapes, but for doctors in rural practices, a chief and pervasive fear is the fear of not knowing enough clinically and thus making errors of omission, or not even recognizing a potential pitfall due to lack of access to knowledge.
For many non-medical persons,...
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