1,180 Counties Lack a General Surgeon
More than 15 million Americans live in a county with no general surgeon, even as total clinician headcount grows. Why aggregate numbers hide the gap that keeps operating rooms closed.
The Paperwork That Decides Your Start Date: Licensure Disclosures, Background Checks, Credentialing, and Visa Timing
The gap between signing a contract and seeing your first patient is filled with licensure applications, credentialing packets, and bureaucratic timelines that most residents don’t understand until they’ve already missed a start date. This is the administrative map—disclosure questions, document collection, visa sequencing, and the month-by-month countdown that determines whether you start in August or October.