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27 Texas Counties Have No Doctor
Twenty-seven counties in Texas have no doctors and more than 100 have been designated as primary care shortage areas.
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A shortage of primary care physicians in Texas is expected to worsen as doctors go into more lucrative specialties.
Twenty-seven Texas counties have no doctor at all, including Motley County in the Panhandle.
The CEO of the Texas Academy of Family Physicians, Tom Banning, said the number of primary care doctors the state produces hasn't kept pace with its birth rate and the influx of residents from other states.
In Texas, the federal government has designated 114 of the 254 counties as primary care shortage areas.
Some clinics spend months trying to lure doctors, and some patients drive one or two counties away for even the most routine health care.
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Posted by: Anonymous
on Sep 8, 2009 at 12:49 AM
Edgehead, put a sock in it.
Posted by: Roger
Location: Texas
on Sep 7, 2009 at 01:29 PM
If any form of health care insurance for all passes where are the health care professionals to treat the newly insured going to come from? How many doctors and other health care professionals are being trained in this country but are not US citizens? What happens when they and elderly health care professionals retire? How much treatment could be rendered unecessary by adequate public health education? How much public health educational material is actually reaching the people since much of it seems to only be available in Spanish or English? Where do Vietnamese, Chineese, German, French, and other non english or non spanish speaking people get their health information? If they rely on traditional healers or folk medicine is there adequate support being given to those healers? Do first aid classes given in the area help meet the need at all and if so how adequate are they?
Posted by: edgehead
Location: Bryan
on Sep 7, 2009 at 01:04 PM
Clearly we need the benevolent power of the Federal Government to force doctors into these unfortunate counties. Then we need to force them into whatever specialties that the Federal regulatory agencies deem necessary. And of course limit their incomes through cost controls (so that the people can afford care). And we need to make sure trial attorneys feel unrestrained in order to "discourage" malpractice on the part of these doctors (why, our historic President says that without restraint, doctors routinely remove organs and amputate limbs simply to boost their income). Each of these ideas has been proposed at one time or another by our esteemed Congress. Now, it's time to push them through... now! Thank goodness we have the Federal government and the AP on the case. Help is on the way!
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