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Originally Posted by AFireInside

It's also a massive insult to physicians, who rack up something like 20,000 clinical hours during residency, & pay people who are nowhere near as qualified with 4500 clinical hours the same while you vilainize them for being paid too much.

Also important is that the province consistently lies about how much doctors are paid in order to make them look greedy.

So Alberta Doctors are paid too well, but people who aren't nearly as qualified should be paid basically the same. There's no logic in this province, absolutely brilliant, the province just made the case that doctors should be paid way more.

and to no surprise the NPs are gunning for full parity- as you point out then- I guess to be paid as highly as the apparently grossly overpaid family MDs


Nurse practitioner primary care program funding finalized: Health minister | CTV News


"We're not naive to the fact that our physician colleagues have been struggling with their funding model," she said. "That's not lost on us.
"So we need to ensure that over the long term that the funding model is sustainable and keeps these NP clinics viable."
Mador said she was hoping to see a higher level of compensation offered, and she will be looking to renegotiate in the future.
"Of course, we would like to see equal pay for equal work," she said. "Nurse practitioners won't be getting a 20 per cent discount on their overhead or any other expenses that they need to be able to run these clinics."
The province said overhead and practice-related costs have been factored into the 80 per cent compensation rate.
According to Lorian Hardcastle, a law professor at the University of Calgary, that funding model could see some pushback from Alberta's doctors, souring an already strained relationship.