Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AAMC objected to such a plan because they thought some medical students signed up might be seriously maladjusted to work in rural areas. With the AMA, the medical schools did not press to increase enrollments but thought that government aid should be extended to students already in medical schools...
...figures probably reflect the consideration that there is an adequate supply of doctors, they do not consider how well those doctors are spread. While the supply of physicians in a city like New York is generally 3 to 4 times as great than the national average, some rural areas have only one doctor for every 1500 or 2000 people...
When the administration offered the plan of limited indenture, it was thinking of supplying doctors to staff the hospitals provided for in the recently passed Hill-Burton Act--legislation setting-up rural health facilities...
...Like It (by William Shakespeare; produced by the Theatre Guild) poses the same problem as country life for city folks: how to get the charm without the boredom. A host of modern inventions have helped turn the trick with rural life, but few productions have found the answer for As You Like It. It remains stubbornly bucolic, discursive and dawdling, with the poetry no real match for the plot...
When counties were compared by population, some unexplained differences showed up. In both north & south, only the least populous counties reported no cases. But in the north, when epidemics struck, they appeared to hit thinly populated rural areas or small cities more often than jampacked big cities. In the south, the bigger the city the more polio...