Rural Areas Brace for a Shortage of Doctors Due to Visa Policy - https://www.fosterglobal.com/blog/rural-areas-brace-for-a-shortage-of-doctors-due-to-visa-polic

Rural Areas Brace for a Shortage of Doctors Due to Visa Policy - https://www.fosterglobal.com/blog/rural-areas-brace-for-a-shortage-of-doctors-due-to-visa-policy/ https://www.fosterglobal.com/blog/rural-areas-brace-for-a-sh... > H-1B recipients also include foreign physicians who practice in places shunned by American doctors for personal and professional reasons. > About 25 percent of all physicians practicing or training in the United States are foreign, but in some inner cities and most rural areas, that share is significantly higher. The medical shortage isn't entirely about depressed wages but rather people not wanting to live and work in inner city Chicago or rural North Dakota. Being a GP isn't a job that one can telecommute easily for. The shortages of people working as teachers and medical field - careers where location maters - are sometimes difficult to staff because people don't want to live in Fargo.