Certainly, the advent of virtual care has made it easier for patients to access specialist care across geographic barriers. That's certainly a barrier for rural physicians. I practice rurally. An additional contributor to burnout of rural physicians is the moral injury of trying to get patients access to care that they might have been able to access in a more urban setting.
Really, we need rural health equity. Certainly, as mentioned by everybody else here, we need data nationally around the distribution of physicians, where we may be over resourced, whether we are maldistributed or just do not have enough.
We need to know who's doing what practice and where, because a family physician is not a family physician, and a Royal College specialist is not a Royal College specialist.