Lesotho has 89 doctors for 2 million people. If they divided up the country each doc would have 22,471 patients.
Ethiopia has only 2,000 doctors for 75 million people. If they divided up the country each doc would have to have 37 500 patients.
There are 800,000 doctors in the USA(not counting chiropractors or dentists or clinical psychologists) for a population of 300 million. Each doc needs something like 375 patients.
When I graduate with my other nationwide-colleagues there will be 17,000 graduates making their way into America's doctor pool.
If Lesotho had 90 instead of 89, each doctor would need 200 fewer patients (22,471).Even though it doesn't work this way, it's still pretty interesting.
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