How? Do they charge higher rates than elsewhere - effectively using supply and demand and saying: "You don't have anywhere else to go, so pay my rates."
Most doctors these days are salaried employees at a large health care organization. They get higher salaries in the sticks because nobody wants to work there.
Ah. Thanks for that info.
Source for this assertion? It seems more likely (to me) that they'd make less due to their smaller and less affluent clientele.