45% of doctors would consider leaving their practice if....

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  • haffajappahaffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    I laugh everytime someone brings up the negativity of healthcare in Canada..

    i don't see any starving doctors where I live... which is Vancouver, by the way.. one of the highest (if not the highest) housing/living costs in all of Canada.
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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    Doctors leaving their practices to do what... hang drywall?
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  • FiveB247xFiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    To answer more surveys obviously...
    Cosmo wrote:
    Doctors leaving their practices to do what... hang drywall?
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  • shadowcastshadowcast Posts: 2,231
    This is a Right Wing FEAR tatic.The doctors are still gonna get paid. Grant it some doctors are in for the money but the majority of them really give shit and enjoy helping people.
  • cincybearcatcincybearcat Posts: 16,497
    scb wrote:

    Exactly. And you know what would drastically decrease malpractice issues? Universal healthcare.


    I've been thinking bout this post, help me out here, how exactly would this drastically reduce malpractice lawsuits?
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  • __ Posts: 6,651
    scb wrote:

    Exactly. And you know what would drastically decrease malpractice issues? Universal healthcare.


    I've been thinking bout this post, help me out here, how exactly would this drastically reduce malpractice lawsuits?

    The majority of the money paid out in malpractice lawsuits is to cover a lifetime of future medical care for the victim. If healthcare were already covered, this portion of the payout would go away. If payouts weren't so big, malpractice insurance need not be as outrageous as it is today.
  • KDH12KDH12 Posts: 2,096
    Cosmo wrote:
    Doctors leaving their practices to do what... hang drywall?


    no cause no one is building houses anymore

    they will work at Starbucks for the good health plan
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  • AusticmanAusticman Posts: 1,327
    shadowcast wrote:
    This is a Right Wing FEAR tatic.The doctors are still gonna get paid. Grant it some doctors are in for the money but the majority of them really give shit and enjoy helping people.

    The ones in it for the money are putting in fake tits and doing nosejobs. I doubt the the size of there pay packets will change at all. The rest of them will out there trying to save lives tomorrow and the next day. The single biggest load of bullshit I've heard when it comes to America's health care debate. :roll:
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  • cincybearcatcincybearcat Posts: 16,497
    scb wrote:
    scb wrote:

    Exactly. And you know what would drastically decrease malpractice issues? Universal healthcare.


    I've been thinking bout this post, help me out here, how exactly would this drastically reduce malpractice lawsuits?

    The majority of the money paid out in malpractice lawsuits is to cover a lifetime of future medical care for the victim. If healthcare were already covered, this portion of the payout would go away. If payouts weren't so big, malpractice insurance need not be as outrageous as it is today.


    I see where you are coming from. However, it has been my experience in lawsuits (not malpractice, but involving needing medical care) that the biggest $ comes from not the medical care but the compensation for ...how to say it...a reduction in the quality of life...restrictions on what people can do going forward no matter what medical care the can receive. Permanent restrictions. I could be wrong.
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  • decides2dreamdecides2dream Posts: 14,977
    Cosmo wrote:
    Doctors leaving their practices to do what... hang drywall?


    that made me laugh.


    and yea, seriously...i don't buy it. being a doctor will still be a VERY well paying profession. VERY. well. paying.
    besides, i would kinda like to think that many became doctors b/c well....they also want to help people. naive thought, i know....but i do like to believe it. honestly, what is the 'incentive' for ALL the doctors around the globe who practice medicine? errr, think it's rather the same. sure, doctors here probably make more $$$, no doubt, but i don't think doctors elsewhere are actually receiving foodstamps either.
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  • haffajappahaffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    Of course doctors are going to say they will CONSIDER leaving, if they can scare you into not paying them less.

    And the majority said they wouldn't consider leaving (i'm assuming.. i didn't read the article)
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