Bakersfield, UNITED STATES
To match Special Report USA-HEALTHCARE/DOCTORS
Medical records clerks work in Clinica Sierra Vista's East Bakersfield Community Health Center in Bakersfield, California October 20, 2009. Nowhere in the United States has more doctors at its beck and call than White Plains, one of the wealthiest cities in the nation. Nearly 3,000 miles (4,830 km) away, scaring up a doctor in Bakersfield, situated in California's economically battered Central Valley, is a lot harder. In fact, White Plains has more than twice the number of doctors per capita as Bakersfield, where needy patients until recently had to take a 2-hour bus trip to Fresno to see a diabetes treatment specialist. Picture taken October 20, 2009. To match Special Report USA-HEALTHCARE/DOCTORS REUTERS/Phil McCarten (UNITED STATES HEALTH)