Take a look at Cameroon:
The West African country officially has about 3 000 practising clinicians for its 17 million people but because they are clustered in towns and cities, rural areas are often left with one doctor for 40 000 inhabitants, Okie said.
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There are parts of the United States where there is one doctor for 80,000 people.
If the American medical community was interested in solving this problem they would actually allow for the production of a sufficient number of providers domestically. There is no rationale behind the current system based upon the Flexner Report except to limit competition and under supply the market in order to enrich existing providers. Coupled with this is the fact that 25% of the provider base is foreign trained. If you were a provider in a third world country making peanuts and had the chance to come here… where would you practice?
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