Divided by Care
“The lack of preventive care is a familiar problem for rural communities: The nation isn’t producing enough primary care doctors, and fewer are practicing in poor, rural areas like those in southern New Mexico than in urban areas. A paper published in 2015 in the journal Family Medicine found that 55 percent of family medicine residents went on to practice within 100 miles of their training site after graduation, indicating not enough are filtering from major urban hospitals into more remote parts of the country.”