"In Texas, there is a shortage of physicians, 70 percent of patients cannot obtain a same-day visit with their primary doctor, and 79 percent of emergency room visits are for routine problems ". ... Wisconsin offers $50,000 in debt forgiveness for a three-year commitment to certain underserved rural areas (Wisc. ... By most standards, a primary care physicians starting salary is about $150,000 compared to a specialty physicians who makes two to three times more than that. ... Even though the average income for a physician in the U.S. fell by nine percent between 1993 and 2000, newly trained pr...

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