There’s another complication in Oklahoma’s quest for more rural doctors: competition with Texas. Through the Physician Manpower Training Commission, the state funds scholarships, stipends and loan aid to incentivize young medical students and residents to work in rural practices. Usually, the OK vs. Texas rivalry is about state government doing — regulating, taxing — less, [...]
Bob Abernathy has been a physician for about 30 years. He grew up in the country, and enjoys his life and medical practice in Cordell, a town of about 3,000 in the western part of the state. Two of his sons are in medical school, but neither wants to follow their father’s path. AUDIO BY [...]
It’s time for annual flu shots. But due to state budget cuts, some Oklahomans who are used to getting vaccines at county health departments for free are being asked to pay up.
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