Reuters (3/1, Doyle) reports that as a result of marriages to well-educated career people, physicians are less likely to practice medicine in rural and underserved areas of the US, a research letter published March 1 in the Journal of the American Medical Association contends.
Medscape (3/1, Hackethal) reports that “after adjusting for age, race/ethnicity, and sex, physicians with highly educated spouses were 38% less likely to work in a rural underserved area compared with those without highly educated spouses.” The authors of the research letter concluded that “approaches, such as allowing provision of health care without requiring physicians to locate in rural areas (i.e., through telemedicine), should be investigated."
Medscape (3/1, Hackethal) reports that “after adjusting for age, race/ethnicity, and sex, physicians with highly educated spouses were 38% less likely to work in a rural underserved area compared with those without highly educated spouses.” The authors of the research letter concluded that “approaches, such as allowing provision of health care without requiring physicians to locate in rural areas (i.e., through telemedicine), should be investigated."