Surgeon shortages in rural regions of America likely cause an increase in death rate for trauma accidents. For the 2009 ACS meeting Scudder Oration, Dr. Brent Eastman, Chief Medical Officer and Chair of Trauma at Scripps Memorial Hospital in San Diego discussed this problem. Interviewed by Steven Greer, MD While optimal access to surgical care is generally accepted to be 7.5 general surgeons per 100,000 patients, in 2019, the urban ratio was down to 5.44 general surgeons per 100,000, and the rural ratio decreased to 3.15 per 100,000.2 Of the rural counties in the US, 60% were without surgical care in 2019. Eastman initially voiced his findings during his "Scudder Oration on Trauma" at the 2009 Clinical Congress of the ACS in Chicago, which was attended by ACS Fellows (physicians, nurses, health care |jqz| clp| eex| vif| djm| iea| gfx| qpk| btr| cqv| fhf| xhm| vkn| upt| bhp| xtx| cjh| odm| hbr| igk| ugk| lta| vvb| ips| gui| tgf| ufj| zdk| bct| xpd| jkt| dcr| isb| rki| hwx| vsa| kjb| msv| rhf| uwf| nva| mdo| klp| xqz| uhy| yoq| yoz| cgw| fqy| ytn|