The lecturer discusses about working as a doctor in rural area of U.S and asserts that it has several advantages to recent graduated young doctors. This casts a doubt on the reading passage’s argument that working in countryside as a doctor is not attractive to young doctors.
First, he explains that the government created a debt forgiveness policy for a doctor who work in a countryside for a certain period. This policy’s effectiveness already has been proved by success of similar policy for attracting young teachers to rural area. The policy for doctors also has been successful so far. This refutes the reading passage’s assertion that lower pay is problem preventing young doctors from working in rural area.
Second, the lecturer contends that being physically departed from big city does not mean complete isolation. Doctors in rural and urban areas can contact to each other whenever they want simply by email, phone call, or online chat room to ask solutions for medical problems and share their opinions. This contradicts the reading passage’s opinion that working in countryside makes young doctors isolated.
Finally, according to the lecturer, silent and slow environment of rural area is more attractive to doctors whose job itself has an intensive character than stressful conditions of urban area. Many doctors finds that peaceful environment and slow-paced life in countryside form best balance with their job. This rebuts the reading passage’s argument that boring life style of rural area is uninteresting for many young doctors.