Political Quotes

“Today, fourth-year medical students submitted their applications to residency programs across our country, preparing to enter the workforce as surgeons, specialists, and family doctors. As these students begin the process of choosing the hospitals where they will work, I urge them to consider working in rural communities. Working in facilities that are struggling right now to recruit new physicians, and these new medical students--these new, highly-trained individuals--will be able to serve communities that desperately need them. For too long, a lack of doctors has been a significant barrier to care for families in rural Pennsylvania. To address this critical shortage, I am proud to have created the Homegrown Healthcare Initiative, which pairs third- and fourth-year medical students with hospitals across Pennsylvania's 13th Congressional District. So far we have been able to place nearly 30 students in hospitals in Blair, Cambria, Fulton, and Franklin counties. It is time to ensure the students who were raised in rural communities return to these communities to live, to work, and to practice medicine. To all of the medical students applying for residency today, good luck, and I thank them for all the work that they will do on behalf of their patients. out of control inflation”