When a child gets sick, most parents can take them over to the doctors’office immediately. 1 Though there are plenty of children’s doctors in the United States, nearly a million children live in rural areas where there are no doctors, a new study has found. 2 As a result, children in urban areas have better access1 to health care. It seems there are enough doctors to go around, but they are just not in the right places. In fact, the number of children’s doctors in America more than doubled between 1996 and 2006. 3 "We are training enough doctors, but they are not going to areas where they are most needed," Scott Shipman, a professor at Dartmouth Medical School, says. The new study shows there are basically equal numbers of children living in areas of plentiful supply and undersupply. There are 15 million children —20 percent of children in the United States —who live in areas where child health care is plentiful. 4 That’s a patientload2 of more than 4,500 children per doctor. On average3, in the United States there are 1,420 children per doctor, though every state has its own low-supply and high-supply areas. Generally, Washington has the largest supply of doctors —443 children per doctor. Next in line is Vermont (佛蒙特州), with 933 children per doctor. 5 Notes:
1. access
n.(使用或见到的)机会
2. patient load 病人负荷量
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