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Iowa City has high per capita number of doctors
Associated Press
Jul. 9, 2010 9:28 pm
It turns out that Iowa City should be one of the best places in the country to live if you suddenly get sick or suffer an injury.
With 1,915 physicians - or 1,305 per 100,000 people - the Iowa City area has the second-most physicians per capita in the nation. That's according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2010 edition of the State and Metropolitan Area Data Book, which was released this week.
The only urban area with more physicians per capita is Rochester, Minn., which is, of course, home to the Mayo Clinic. Rochester has 3,374 physicians, or 1,871 per 100,000 people.
As a point of reference, the Des Moines-West Des Moines metropolitan statistical area has 1,169 physicians - or 214 per 100,000.
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