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Saturday May 25th 2013

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Wooing Doctors to Underserved Areas

As California braces for the demands of health reform amid a physician shortage in rural and inner city areas, health professionals are trying to keep such efforts alive and introduce new ones. A bill would provide medical students a $105,000 scholarship in exchange for a written commitment to practice three years in a medically underserved community. It would give young men and women from humble economic backgrounds some hope that they could afford to become a doctor – and ultimately give back according to a recent post at http://centerforhealthreporting.org.