Does rural Pennsylvania have more medical doctors or more lawyers? The answer, according to “Rural Perspectives,” a publication by the Center for Rural Pennsylvania (Nov./Dec./ 2022) is doctors. In 2019 there were 6308 active doctors in rural PA (M.D.s and D.O.s). In 2022 rural PA had 4286 active attorneys.
In urban PA (19 out of the 67 counties are considered urban) lawyers (43,954) outnumbered doctors (42,080). Carbon, my home county, had 62 doctors and 68 attorneys, but the doctors were counted before St. Lukes and Lehigh Valley opened two large hospitals here. I’m sure that the number of doctors has surged in the last two years.
I’m not sure what all of that even means.
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