15 million Americans live in a county with no general surgeon

More than 15 cardinal Americans unrecorded successful 1 of the 1,180 U.S. counties with nary wide surgeon, and 951 counties person nary surgeon successful immoderate of 12 surgical specialties, according to a caller nationalist investigation announced astatine the ACS Clinical Congress 2026 successful Washington, D.C., and simultaneously published successful the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.