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Canadian Doctors: Cancel Our Pay Rise and Spend Money Elsewhere

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday March 17 2018, @12:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the Hippocrates-would-be-proud dept.

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The Guardian reports doctors from Quebec have published an open letter demanding better allocation of public funds.

"We, Quebec doctors, are asking that the salary increases granted to physicians be cancelled and that the resources of the system be better distributed for the good of healthcare workers," reads the open letter.

It was drafted late last month by Médecins québécois pour le régime public, a group of doctors and medical students who support public healthcare.

So far the letter has attracted some 800 signatures from people with a spine and media attention.

Additional coverage on The New York Times, BBC News and The Washington Post

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17 2018, @04:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17 2018, @04:59PM (#654135)

    Bonita pointed out to me that it's quite common for the Canadian government to go to colossal expense to educate prospective doctors, who then go to the US because they can get paid more here.

    A doctor gets paid quite a lot already. There is no need to get paid more. But supply of doctors is artificially maintained at a low level to maximize profits for every physician.

    The average gross clinical payment to family medicine physicians in Canada was just more than $271,000, while medical specialists' average gross payment per physician was $338,000 and surgical specialists' average payment was $446,000.

    In 2015, more physicians returned from abroad than moved abroad, resulting in a net gain of 110 physicians from international migration.

    https://secure.cihi.ca/free_products/Summary_Report_2015_EN.pdf [secure.cihi.ca]

    So even if a family doctor takes off the top $150k/yr for office space and services, that leaves close to $150k. So don't worry, doctors are not starving. The ones that went to US to make more realize quite quickly that all the extra they make is eaten up and more by high costs of litigation insurance, which doesn't really apply in Canada.

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