Luring Doctors And Lawyers To Rural America   Patrick
Goetzinger, co-chair, Project Rural Practice Task Force Maria
Kefalas, author, Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain
and What It Means for America Byron Crouse, program director,
Wisconsin Rural Physician Residency Assistance Program  Rural
brain drain is not a new phenomenon, but some rural communities
are trying to attract doctors and lawyers in new ways. In March,
South Dakota became the first state to pass a law that offers
annual subsidies to lawyers who agree to live and work in rural
areas.    This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm John Donvan, in
Washington. Neal Conan is away. A lawyer shortage, really? Well,
yes, depending on where you live, and rural America is in some
places apparently suffering a lawyer shortage right now, just as
it has long been coping with a doctor shortage. Small-town life
is not selling with certain professions, and in distinct ways
communities can be truly undermined by the absence of, say,
doctors and lawyers and arc