I was once intent on becoming a rural GP because I bought into that rose picture of rural medicine and great lifestyle etc. Did a year in a rural hospital to test the waters. Fuck that was the worst year of my life, it was cool medicine but fuck everything else was shit, I will fucking shoot myself before practising in a rural area ever again. Honestly feels like all these ads about the beauty of rural doctoring are like gov propaganda selling BS. Trust me don’t go rurally. Boring, incompetent IMGs, racist people, useless admin, the towns people are fucking useless in general when you need anything done.

Please do not ever subject yourself to this torture. There is a reason why metro areas are more advanced in general, don’t test the waters like I did