[Newsbot]

Title: Canada has more doctors, making more money than ever
Category: Health
Posted By: BeaverFever
Date: 2013-09-27 13:18:14
Canadian

[Regina]

Duh..........you pay them more and they work less. Big shocker............

[PostFactum]

How doctor can work less? That's like being a little pregnant.

[herbie]

Goes hand in hand with all the wait times we've been programmed to get pissed off at when lately everyone in these parts has been shocked when the call comes "There's an opening for your surgery in four days, can you be there?"
Even know a couple with asshole bosses who said NO - you didn't give enough notice to take time off. one quit and two found slots open two or three weeks later. My spouse turned down the first chance for hers, wouldn't even think of asking the Boss without a couple weeks notice.
Good working fodder her. Worrying more about the Boss and her scheduling difficulties than her own health.

[Regina]

PostFactum PostFactum:

How doctor can work less? That's like being a little pregnant.

They pick and choose when and where they want to work. They have lots of opportunities to work at walk in clinics and hospital emergency rooms. They have no overhead and no follow up responsibilities. We heard of doctor shortages but in reality there is a shortage of family practices. Anyone with a sore ear or runny nose can see a doctor right away at a walk in clinic or the ER, but have no family doctor.

[PostFactum]

Regina Regina:

PostFactum PostFactum:

How doctor can work less? That's like being a little pregnant.

They pick and choose when and where they want to work. They have lots of opportunities to work at walk in clinics and hospital emergency rooms. They have no overhead and no follow up responsibilities. We heard of doctor shortages but in reality there is a shortage of family practices. Anyone with a sore ear or runny nose can see a doctor right away at a walk in clinic or the ER, but have no family doctor.

Looks like that's the fail of the system.

[BeaverFever]

I think its logical that if there are more doctors available to meet patient demand, each individual doctor will need to work less as they will have fewer cases.

[andyt]

Docs (most of them ) are paid per patient seen, so that math doesn't add up.

[ShepherdsDog]

Regina Regina:

PostFactum PostFactum:

How doctor can work less? That's like being a little pregnant.

They pick and choose when and where they want to work. They have lots of opportunities to work at walk in clinics and hospital emergency rooms. They have no overhead and no follow up responsibilities. We heard of doctor shortages but in reality there is a shortage of family practices. Anyone with a sore ear or runny nose can see a doctor right away at a walk in clinic or the ER, but have no family doctor.

What shocked the hell out of me, when I was overseas was doctors still did house calls.

[Regina]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

I think its logical that if there are more doctors available to meet patient demand, each individual doctor will need to work less as they will have fewer cases.

Well Sherlock.................that's not the case.

[Public_Domain]

[Regina]

Public_Domain Public_Domain:

More doctors and longer wait times; something's up

Read above.........

[Brenda]

I live in a town with 1700 people. We have 4 (FOUR) Family doctors in one practice and 2 dentist offices in town.

The Regional hospital is somewhat ok. The nurses are all hired on a casual basis, my daughter has been on the waiting list to get her tonsils removed since May (and had tonsilitis 4 times since then... Let alone the amount of times before she was put on the list...), it took about 3 months to get her an appointment with the nose throat and ear doctor, who has a private practice and is not in the hospital.

To get care from the family doctor here is a piece of cake. A specialist however... The hospital serves about 30-40,000 people.

[herbie]

Small towns are lovely aren't they?
We have a hospital that won't even do tonsils or deliver babies. They shut down so many beds to save money, they justified shutting down the kitchen and most of the staff.
Now they save by shipping you 175kms in an ambulance (175 kms back, empty) or in extreme cases helicopter.
The patients and seniors in the care home get their meals once a day delivered from the next town. Cold and shitty airline style crap.
Yes helicopters are just so cheap to fly, ya know.
So now they're dicking over the ambulance staff to save money.
It doesn't even make sense anymore....

[PostFactum]

Brenda Brenda:

I live in a town with 1700 people. We have 4 (FOUR) Family doctors in one practice and 2 dentist offices in town.

The Regional hospital is somewhat ok. The nurses are all hired on a casual basis, my daughter has been on the waiting list to get her tonsils removed since May (and had tonsilitis 4 times since then... Let alone the amount of times before she was put on the list...), it took about 3 months to get her an appointment with the nose throat and ear doctor, who has a private practice and is not in the hospital.

To get care from the family doctor here is a piece of cake. A specialist however... The hospital serves about 30-40,000 people.

Small towns are not so popular for living there, I mean that most of people would like big cities: more payement, you can buy everything etc. Doctors are people too.