Nevada continues to rank poorly in numbers of doctors nurses steve marcus nurse terrie young originally of the philippines visits with standardized patient nannette mears during a unlv . 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 . 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 . My personal experience in the year that we have been here is not so much that the doctors are bad its just that there are not enough of them it takes a long time to get in with a specialist and most of them are so overworked that when you do see them they spend 5 minutes with you and pull out a prescription pad