Article completely white washes the reason people don’t want to do obgyn...
liability.
It's true. The costs of malpractice insurance for doctors are very high, with general medicine costing the least (around $50K per year), but doing surgery in highly populous areas costing over $200,000 per year. Add to that the doctor's debt for medical school and the need to support self and family, and his or her medical practice would have to rake in more than most rural areas could support, even if working punishing hours.
And as the article points out, there is a great need for more than one doc in a rural area, so that there is someone else on call. Otherwise, burnout and closing the practice.