""You only want me to mask because you're a liberal bitch.""
""Doctors have been putting cancer-causing chemicals in sunscreen so we'll all get cancer and they'll enrich themselves.""
""'You're a pharma whore,'""
""They say it to my face.""
Rural physicians face increasing hostility and distrust as political anger and health misinformation spread through small communities. Patients sometimes refuse vaccination and mask guidance, accuse doctors of ideological or financial motives, and reject preventive outreach such as sunscreen distribution. Conspiracy theories and disbelief in disease reality have led to preventable deaths among immunocompromised patients. Persistent shortages of rural doctors create information vacuums that misinformation fills, and recent immigration and policy changes have made recruiting foreign physicians more difficult, further straining access to care and eroding community civility.
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