Want more family doctors in Ontario? Pay them better, say physicians
Want more family doctors in Ontario? Pay them better, say physicians
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I can no longer empathize. My family doctor lives in one of the nicest neighborhoods in Toronto, when there's a holiday she takes the whole week off, when it's a major holiday, two weeks off easily. She goes on vacation with her family 2-3 times a year and no longer even does in person visits. I haven't had a vacation in a decade and I can't afford to stop for even a day, so I can't relate to this article
I would argue nursing staff, physiotherapists, mental health workers, dietitians, etc need more of a pay raise. They're often working in the same settings and at least as many hours in hospitals and family health clinics but paid a small fraction of doctora' wages despite tons of schooling.
Unfortunately, Canada has always had an issue of doctors leaving to the USA due to better pay there. Although I have little sympathy for them given how much they're already earning, I'd rather them have an inflated salary than corporate bailouts, governmental beurocratic inefficiencies, CEOs, etc so I'll live with it.
Edit: also because the alternative is moving to a private system where you can be certain they'll be overpaid, but healthcare will be categorically worse.
My doctor started handing off the fees to his patients. You want a skin tag removed? 50 bucks. You want a sick note? 50 bucks. Alternatively, you can pay for a subscription of like 200 dollars a year or something to cover all of those electives.
It's stupid. What happened to "do no harm"? I guess it doesn't count when it's financial harm.
I pay my fucking taxes. Allot them correctly so I don't have to double pay my physicians because you've decided to allocate taxes to nonsense bullshit instead of core social welfare programs.
Fuck
RobDoug Ford and the Cons. They're bleeding the healthcare system dry so they can claim it's a failure and privatize it. They spend more money subsidizing private clinics and hospitals than actually funding the regular ones.Rob Ford
Do you mean Doug, or are we speaking ill of the dead?
Yeah I do mean Doug.
Thanks lol.
I just want to point out that "speak no ill of the dead" is a fucking stupid idea, and nobody should ever say that phrase.
People should be remembered for what they did and who they were, even if (or maybe especially) they were bad.
I completely agree. Just last week I was saying to a friend how if we say the deceased, "were just the best/nicest/friendliest, etc." it minimizes the truly great people.
I was trying to make a joke and couldn't come up with anything better. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I kind of understand what they're saying, that they too are losing ground vs inflation, but I agree with you, it's pretty hard to empathize. Especially when they say stupid stuff like, "I'm sorry, 2.8 per cent is a bagel and coffee," and, "I got a haircut yesterday and it cost me $40."
