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'I'm a problem solver': Meet the mayor whose plan to attract family doctors is turning heads across Canada (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] 32 points 1 year ago (7 children)

"Mayor pitches common sense idea" probably going to get shut down by some variety of "big pharma"

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Or the college of physicians and surgeons

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    There are physicians in Canada that are employed by corporations - OH&S physicians, for example. The Colleges make sure physicians are practicing ethically and competently, but I don't think they have any say in relation to whether a Dr is employed or self-employed. What would be the issue?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    I assure you the college has its hand in every single thing doctors do in your province. They dictate, yes dictate, everything the doctors of that province do, say, how they work, why they work, when and where they work. Like cops, doctors don't step outside doctor protocol. Well known nation wide by anyone remotely related to the medical field. If the college decides they don't like it, it will end.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I could see them causing trouble if wages were too far one way or another from what other family practitioners were making, but otherwise I would be surprised. The smart thing for the municipality to do would be to consult the college as they set up this program so that the college can feel as though they had a hand in it. I'm sure they have awareness that family medicine is a discipline having a really hard time attracting and retaining doctors, and if by eliminating some of the administrative drawbacks this municipality is creating a more appealing model, then I don't see why they would be against it.

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    • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Doctors aren't paid to answer your emails, sign paperwork or prescriptions while your not in the room, and if you are late or don't show up they don't get paid for the time you're not there.

    If you add in the fact that they are absurdly overbooked and have a business to run too, it's easy to see that there are numerous problems to be be fixed. Being an employee, or them forming a union of sorts would be a good.

    Additionally, if someone is dying on a plane, a doctor wouldn't be covered by their insurance if they mess up a procedure on that plane. The doctor would be taking all of the risk.

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