Without context hearing that 20 percent of a towns doctors are bad might skew your reaction but the fact remains that people died because of the individual behind the stat numbers stretch . Heres where nevadas health care workforce ranks compared with other states on the basis of the number of physicians per 100000 state residents washington dc is included in the rankings . Doctors and researchers blame the shortage on several factors including las vegas once booming population which grew too fast for doctors to keep pace low levels of government funding for. The news was not all bad between 2000 and 2015 nevadas rate of death due to any type of cancer fell from 2136 per 100000 which was above the national average at the time to 1572 per