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Originally Posted by AltaGuy
Still wondering why we're really so concerned with teachers when family doctors appear to do almost nothing and are paid three times the amount.
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I won't comment on the pay of Family Doctors, however, if you see them as doing nothing, you are most likely a person with few medical concerns and visit them rarely.
To people like you, they do very little, but still support the system by helping catch potential costly concerns early.
To a great majority of people... lets say a majority applies to people 45 and up just from talking to Doctors (so take that as you will), they deal with complex medical problems stacked and stacked upon each other.
Remove/lower family doctors, equal more expensive ER visits and specialists visits.
From my uneducated point of view, a day very soon may come when a Family Doctor's job is replaced or offset by a complex computer, however, we are not there yet.