With some 318,000 practitioners, the U.S. has more doctors than most other industrial nations. In rural and slum areas, however, many Americans are unable to see a physician when they are ill. Few medical men are willing to settle or practice in locations that offer high personal risks or poor medical facilities. At least 5,000 rural communities across the country have no doctors at all; some city ghettos have only one for every 10,000 residents.
Now President Nixon has signed into law a $60 million program that could, before the end of the year, put a corps of Government-paid doctors into areas...
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