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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: jsmth321 Date: July 3, 2022, 2:16 pm
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Healthcare staff shortages getting worse and worse.
HTML https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/some-emergency-rooms-across-canada-shutting-down-amid-staff-shortages-1.5972278
"Our health-care system is at a level of crisis we've never
really seen, and the health workers are in a state of crisis
we've never seen." - Dr. Katharine Smart, president of the
Canadian Medical Association.
Poor pay is likely part of equation but poor working conditions
are likely also a problem.
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: jsmth321 Date: July 5, 2022, 9:03 pm
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COVID boosters coming this fall in BC.
HTML https://bc.ctvnews.ca/vaccine-doses-for-everyone-this-fall-b-c-minister-says-as-next-covid-19-wave-approaches-1.5974076
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: jsmth321 Date: July 6, 2022, 5:40 pm
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Province annouced in mid June an incentive to try and get some
of the new doctor graduates to practice as a GP in BC for 2
years, apparently of the 175 new doctors, 0 have taken the
province up on their offer.
HTML https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/no-takers-yet-for-25000-new-doctor-signing-bonus-5547521
"Health Minister Adrian Dix had hoped to scoop up 175 new grads
by offering a two-year “new to practice” deal valued at
$295,457, with a $25,000 signing bonus that expires on Sept. 30
and about $130,000 over five years in medical-training
debt-forgiveness."
168 residents signed a letter to the health ministry asking for
a June 30th meeting, as of the article, the health ministry has
not agreed to meet with them.
"In a June 20 letter to the Health Ministry and Doctors of B.C.
signed by 168 residents, Boskovic and Moradi expressed concern
that the offer does not address overhead expenses — including
rent, staff, utilities, supplies, licensing fees, malpractice
insurance, software for charting and locum doctors to cover
vacations — which can total $80,000 to $100,000 annually."
With overhead costs like that its not a surprise doctors don't
want to be a GP here at the base pay that a GP is paid per
patient. "The majority of physicians in B.C. work under a
fee-for-service model in which they are compensated per patient
visit, about $32 as a base fee."
1 in 5 BC residents do not have access to a family doctor.
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: jsmth321 Date: July 6, 2022, 5:56 pm
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The below was posted on reddit by someone who is apparently a
doctor in BC.
Average billing data for family doctors across Canada for
2019-2020 from CIHI from lowest to highest. Notice where BC
sits.
HTML https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/vs4icw/bc_doctors_urge_province_to_expand_new_precedent/iezgsr1/
NL 219,701
BC 223,134
NS 234,283
NB 239,640
QC 279,662
YT 297,239
ON 319,483
MN 315,631
PEI 334,615
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: jsmth321 Date: July 6, 2022, 9:47 pm
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Basically boils down to, BC won't pay GP's a competitive pay
rates so they don't want to work here anymore when they will be
paid more in almost any other province or the US.
"The problem for patients is that many general practitioners
(GPs) leave B.C. because they can make more money in other
provinces or in the United States"
HTML https://biv.com/article/2022/07/doctor-crisis-family-doctor-business-bc-far-lucrative
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: Siouxie Date: July 6, 2022, 10:02 pm
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HTML https://www.statista.com/statistics/831118/canada-family-general-practitioners-by-province
[quote]Number of family medicine and general practice physicians
in Canada as of 2020, by province*[/quote]
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: jsmth321 Date: July 7, 2022, 10:32 pm
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Sucks another Omicron wave is building, hospitalizations up 35%
in BC week over week.
HTML https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/covid-19-update-july-7
It's been 2 months since hospitaliations increased.
Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 are driving the wave which is
expected to peak in August.
The province doesn't really do PCR testing anymore for most
people so hard to say how many cases are out there.
HTML https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/covid-19-update-july-7
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: jsmth321 Date: July 7, 2022, 11:17 pm
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"She quit her job as an emergency room nurse at St. Michael’s
Hospital in Toronto earlier this year to work as a travel nurse
at a hospital in Texas. Now, she is getting paid three times her
salary in Canada and working only three shifts a week – 36 hours
– as opposed to the punishing 70-80 hours she was working in
Toronto."
HTML https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canadian-nurses-moving-abroad
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: jsmth321 Date: July 10, 2022, 1:48 pm
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HTML https://twitter.com/jjhorgan/status/1546196960222126080
HTML https://twitter.com/jjhorgan/status/1546196960222126080
"While universal public health care was once a 50-50
partnership, provinces now have to pay nearly 80% of costs.
I know the Prime Minister realizes the importance of health care
for Canadians. But we need action." BC Premier on twitter.
“How bad does it have to get and how many people need to die
because they couldn’t access health care before we actually see
some action?” CMA president Katharine Smart said in an
interview. "
"Ottawa has given no substantive response on their (provinces)
health care funding concerns."
“We get lots of `We’re working on it,’ but we have not seen any
outcomes,” the NDP Premier said.
"In the absence of a substantive federal response, Mr. Horgan
said, provinces may look at different modes of delivering
services that could raise questions related to the Canada Health
Act, which lays out federal goals for publicly funded care."
HTML https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-premiers-press-trudeau-to-end-delay-on-health-transfer-talks/
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: jsmth321 Date: July 14, 2022, 5:04 pm
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What century are we in? Man waited 4 days in Ontario hospital
hallway for surgery to fix shattered leg.
HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/hallway-healthcare-ontario-1.6519209
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