Rural patients losing access to independent physicians and medical practices

“Most medical training is in urban areas, and there’s sort of this mystique about being at the highest profile place and the most effective organization,” Wykoff said in an interview with the Daily Yonder. “But I think we have to help people understand that there’s a quality of life in rural America… There are various ways people have proposed doing that. One of the most obvious is you get doctors and nurses from rural areas who have a motivation to go home or stay home.”