This week on Noon Edition, we discussed rural health care in Indiana. Joining us in-studio were Medical Director of the Richard G. Lugar Center for Rural Health Jim Turner, Union-Clinton Hospital Assistant Administrator Doug Fauber, and medical students Julia Freeze and John Wheat.
You can listen to the entire program by clicking the play button above. Some highlights:
Discussing the need to make the field of primary care more competitive through a debt forgiveness program for med students who opt to go into primary care instead of specialty care.Addressing a need for a specific path for channeling students interested in practicing in rural areas.A conversation on what makes practicing in rural areas unique.Statistics on the growing need for doctors in rural areas.A program that works on recruiting rural doctors in junior high schools.Advances in medicine and technology that can bring medical care to more patients.You can tell us your thoughts by submitting a comment anytime on the right.
