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Originally Posted by GGG
Can you expand on how this would be a disincentive for retaining doctors.
I would have thought this would be an opportunity for Doctors with existing practices to expand hours and maximize income by employing NPs along side their existing practice.
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Expand hours? My wife currently works 10 -12 hours a day. She usually works 2-4 hours after the clinic closes. My family doctor just shut down his practice because his work life balance was terrible and he has a young daughter, he's gone back to school.
The NPs are getting their own clinics if I'm not mistaken. If NPs were being employed in clinics with doctors I think it would help. They have their place and are very useful but this is just a slap in the face.
Seems like anyone is better off being a NP than a doctor. No complicated cases, small panels, way less school, way less training, same pay.
You work in a province where the government constantly tries to tell the public you're greedy, and over paid (while straight up lying about what they are paid), changing time modifiers etc to reduce pay and make it more difficult to provide good care among MANY other issues.
Then they offer a group with nowhere near the same training, qualifications, and experience basically the same pay without batting an eye, for a 900 person panel. Alberta has a bunch of open residencies for a reason. If they treated MDs like they are planning on treating NPs they might have way less.
There are bunch of other issues that most people wouldn't be aware of as well. How do they determine panel size? Currently if you go to a walk in clinic you become part of their panel. So your family doctor does the work 90% of the time, followup, complicated issues, but now you're under the walk in clinic as their panel not your family doctor. Is that how they are going to determine NP pay? So the NP will be paid more while not really seeing many of those patients.They've already used this system for a payment they provided for clinics.