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Which 10 states are the best for practicing medicine?
Author(s)Jeffrey Bendix
WalletHub ranks them according to wages, opportunity and other metrics
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When it comes to good places for practicing medicine, not all locations are equal. The personal finance website Wallethub.com used data across 19 key metrics to compare the 50 states and District of Columbia for their desirability. The data set ranges from the average annual wage of physicians in each state to the number of hospitals per capita to the quality of the public hospital system. Here are their top 10.
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