{"id":21103,"date":"2023-04-11T08:12:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T12:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21103"},"modified":"2023-04-11T08:12:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T12:12:47","slug":"doctor-shortages-distress-rural-america-where-few-residency-programs-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21103","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Shortages Distress Rural America, Where Few Residency Programs Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ELKO, Nev. \u2014 Anger, devastation, and concern for her patients washed over Dr. Bridget Martinez as she learned that her residency training program in rural northeastern Nevada would be shuttered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The doctor in training remembered telling one of her patients that, come July of this year, she would no longer be her physician. Martinez had been treating the patient for months at a local health care center for a variety of physical and psychiatric health issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe was like, \u2018I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to do,\u2019\u201d Martinez said. \u201cIt almost set her back, I would say, to square one. That\u2019s so distressing to a patient. Continue reading here…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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