[dosman33]

That is funny. However Ill postulate this: Why wouldn't someone go to where the most interesting work is to be found though? You don't become a military doctor if you don't find it interesting stitching up bullet holes. And vice versa, you don't become a military doctor if you're not interested in working on the same.

[arcticbull]

> Why wouldn't someone go to where the most interesting work is to be found though?

Well, Mississippi is ranked 34th in crime, 41st in education, 49th in healthcare, 49th in economy, 40th in fiscal stability, 47th in infrastructure and 36th in opportunity. Assuming a medical professional cares about anything other than "natural environment" in which they rank 16th, I suspect there's a long list of places they'd rather end up.

[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings

[yCombLinks]

Because if you're educated, you generally don't want to move to Mississippi. I grew up there!

[VectorLock]

Thats a very HN opinion. Sometimes people pick careers for factors other than how interesting they are.

[jtbayly]

And sometimes they pick locations based on something other than "statistics" and "rankings."

[adrianN]

Maybe because people prefer earning money over interesting work?

[adgjlsfhk1]

because you're gay, or black, or not Christian, or don't want to be shot?

[pfannkuchen]

Or black? Are you aware that there are quite a lot of black people in Mississippi?

[heyoni]

What’s your point? Mississippi hasn’t exactly been receptive to the civil rights movement.

[ImPostingOnHN]

How did that come to be?