And what will be done about it? Nothing… add it to the todo list.
Well, yes, that has been going for some time now…
I wonder, why is the situation getting only worse then?
The word “crisis” is really starting to lose its punch when it’s in every second article. GP crisis, health crisis, refugee crisis, housing crisis, homelessness crisis.
There truly is a crisis in terms of finding politicians who want to fix anything in fairness
From a comment on a post about GP shortages yesterday:
“The below is my experience as an accountant who has worked with a number of gps as clients.
On a salary 80-140k. If you run your own practice somewhere between 100k and 1.2 million a year take home.”
We all know that GPs are not on the breadline and they’re coming home with an enormously high salary, in comparison to a lot of workers.
If anything, GPs should be doing more work, rather than less IMHO.
You go to a GP with say a pain in your head or in your gut, they write a letter for you to go to hospital, where anything from 12 to 24 hours later you are seen by a lesser qualified doctor (a junior or trainee in the middle of a 24 hour shift probably) to assess your needs. It’s nuts
GPs should be well paid, I have no trouble with that. The system they are in isn’t working like a lot of our health system. I don’t k ow what the issue is, maybe they are too regulated, is it too difficult to transfer between doctors if you have a medical card? I don’t know, but most of them are old and it’s a situation that’s going to get worse. Of course, it’s a result of many years of not training enough doctors in the first place, it was a real closed shop there for many many years, but now you’d want to be nuts to go I to the system from what I see.
My GP has a rural practice, is about 50, looks about 65/70,has a young family and is probably doing OK but he’s on duty pretty much 24/7. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone TBH.
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And what will be done about it? Nothing… add it to the todo list.
Well, yes, that has been going for some time now…
I wonder, why is the situation getting only worse then?
The word “crisis” is really starting to lose its punch when it’s in every second article. GP crisis, health crisis, refugee crisis, housing crisis, homelessness crisis.
There truly is a crisis in terms of finding politicians who want to fix anything in fairness
From a comment on a post about GP shortages yesterday:
“The below is my experience as an accountant who has worked with a number of gps as clients.
On a salary 80-140k. If you run your own practice somewhere between 100k and 1.2 million a year take home.”
We all know that GPs are not on the breadline and they’re coming home with an enormously high salary, in comparison to a lot of workers.
If anything, GPs should be doing more work, rather than less IMHO.
You go to a GP with say a pain in your head or in your gut, they write a letter for you to go to hospital, where anything from 12 to 24 hours later you are seen by a lesser qualified doctor (a junior or trainee in the middle of a 24 hour shift probably) to assess your needs. It’s nuts
GPs should be well paid, I have no trouble with that. The system they are in isn’t working like a lot of our health system. I don’t k ow what the issue is, maybe they are too regulated, is it too difficult to transfer between doctors if you have a medical card? I don’t know, but most of them are old and it’s a situation that’s going to get worse. Of course, it’s a result of many years of not training enough doctors in the first place, it was a real closed shop there for many many years, but now you’d want to be nuts to go I to the system from what I see.
My GP has a rural practice, is about 50, looks about 65/70,has a young family and is probably doing OK but he’s on duty pretty much 24/7. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone TBH.