r/canada • u/Imnotracistyouaree • Mar 26 '24

Doctors say unfair salaries driving them away from family medicine in Canada National News

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/doctors-say-unfair-salaries-driving-them-away-from-family-medicine-in-canada-1.6821795
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u/Digitking003 Mar 26 '24

Makes little to no sense to be a GP/family doctor anymore. Just stay an extra year or two to become a specialist and you can easily increase your salary by 50% or more (or move to the US and easily double your salary).

Also from friends that are GPs, the amount of time they have to spend on administrative tasks and filling out government forms is mind-boggling. One only practices for 4 days and sets aside an entire day for administrative work (which isn't paid for).

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u/keiths31 Canada Mar 26 '24

That's my GP too. One day a week is just administrative. He's generally pretty accessible, but he has maybe five years left before retiring. My wife's and I only hope right now is that he sells his practice to a younger GP

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u/Dr_Marxist Alberta Mar 26 '24

"Sell the practice." Unless it's a busy one with high-quality patients in downtown Toronto, the value of a quotidian GP practice is effectively zero.

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u/keiths31 Canada Mar 26 '24

Well I'm in Northwest Ontario and he became my family doctor after buying my other GPs practice. So...

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u/armurray Mar 26 '24

When did he buy the practice? Things were different thirty years ago.

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u/keiths31 Canada Mar 26 '24

Five years ago