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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
This is why increasing health care capacity in this country is going to be such an uphill battle. Every mooted measure is going to piss someone off.
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It's going to piss them off if you're clearly trying make life harder for one group. Don't act like this is a good solution after all the absolute garbage we've seen from the provincial government with doctors.
You want to have more doctors? Stop fighting with them all day everyday, subsidize some more seats at medical schools in the province, treat residents fairly, use healthcare systems (IT side) that aren't an absolute joke, offer some kind of incentive for clinics to bring residents in, and stop lying about them being greedy.
It's not complicated and we seem to do everything to avoid any of these simple solutions.
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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Holy ####, and with the move towards alternative healthcare models, they're basically going to just wipe out family doctors entirely if they give them equal pay.
Seems like their solution is just to run them out of town, and expect Albertans to pay full price for a substandard model of primary care.
If you're a family doc, I'd be looking at leaving. Full stop now.
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Originally Posted by looooob
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
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My wife's clinic have been in discussions about shutting down for awhile, this may be the final straw.
Their initial request as far as I can remember was to have something like 300k/yr with a 900 patient panel. Anyone that knows, would know that doctors typically don't make 300k/yr for 900 patients. Every family doctor I know would take that deal in a heartbeat. I could be mistaken on that initial request but that's what I recall from a couple months back.