{"id":18808,"date":"2025-12-25T05:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T05:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/the-hidden-depth-of-the-rural-primary-care-shortage\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T05:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T05:27:08","slug":"the-hidden-depth-of-the-rural-primary-care-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=18808","title":{"rendered":"The hidden depth of the rural primary care shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I am a urologist, a cardiologist, a psychiatrist, a rheumatologist. But truly, I am a rural family medicine doctor in one of the most underserved counties in the country. And I am tired. I do not pretend to have the depth of each specialist. What I have is necessity, a toolkit built on scarcity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a rel=\"follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/kevinmd.com\/2025\/12\/the-hidden-depth-of-the-rural-primary-care-shortage.html\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/kevinmd.com\/2025\/12\/the-hidden-depth-of-the-rural-primary-care-shortage.html\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">The hidden depth of the rural primary care shortage<\/a> originally appeared in <a rel=\"follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/kevinmd.com\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">KevinMD.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinmd.com\/2025\/12\/the-hidden-depth-of-the-rural-primary-care-shortage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read full article at source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am a urologist, a cardiologist, a psychiatrist, a rheumatologist. But truly, I am a rural family medicine doctor in one of the most underserved counties in the country. And I am tired. I do not pretend to have the depth of each specialist. What I have is necessity, a toolkit built on scarcity. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1747],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness-lifestyle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}