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Few doctors want to live in a rural area for lifestyle reasons more than salary. A GP or surgeon can make more money in a rural area.

• intended 16y ago
  How? Do they charge higher rates than elsewhere - effectively using supply and demand and saying: "You don't have anywhere else to go, so pay my rates."
  • rdouble 16y ago
    Most doctors these days are salaried employees at a large health care organization. They get higher salaries in the sticks because nobody wants to work there.
    • intended 16y ago
      Ah. Thanks for that info.
    • Gobiner 16y ago
      Source for this assertion? It seems more likely (to me) that they'd make less due to their smaller and less affluent clientele.