When you think of places doctors won't go, you probably think of war zones, third-world countries or other far-flung locales.
But the same problem exists closer to home, . In Georgia, 90% of counties are medically underserved, and the Black Belt (17 poverty-stricken largely African American counties in Alabama and Mississippi) is facing a tuberculosis crisis.
Even as medical schools implement pipeline programs to put doctors in these areas, there's little chance for supply to meet demand.
"The problem of is not limited to rural America, but those communities are where the need is greatest, since a town without a family doctor is unlikely to have any other types of physicians," author Kenny Lin writes.