Iowa

47of74

(18,470 posts)

5. And encourage professionals to take jobs in rural areas

Wed Jun 28, 2017, 11:12 AM

Jun 2017

A problem that many rural areas are seeing these days is a shortage of professionals in rural areas - such as doctors and lawyers. Take lawyers. With some counties here in Iowa one can count on a single hand the number of practicing attorneys they have, and still have fingers left over. To get legal services many residents of these communities have to drive a couple hours to a larger town. Same with doctors. According to this site 73 of the 99 counties here need more primary care doctors. I imagine some of the more rural counties it's a couple hours drive to see one's doctor.

It's not just Iowa that has the problem, but all the midwestern states. I think there needs to be more work to encourage such professionals to work in rural areas, helping them with their student debt and making sure they have all the support they need.

Edit history

Please sign in to view edit histories.

Recommendations

0 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

8 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

College towns are siphoning students out of the rural heart of the Farm Belt [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2017 OP

such a strange word to use - siphoning rurallib Jun 2017 #1

You can get to the article through TWSJ.'s Twitter account. NT mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2017 #2

As I said before I'm seriously considering leaving Iowa 47of74 Jun 2017 #4

we are also rurallib Jun 2017 #7

There is nothing new about this. murielm99 Jun 2017 #3

And encourage professionals to take jobs in rural areas 47of74 Jun 2017 #5

I am in rural Northern Illinois, murielm99 Jun 2017 #6

I think they see what they had missed out on growing up 47of74 Jun 2017 #8