The government removed the salary cap to help relieve the doctor shortage, giving FPs a top salary:
“I rather suspect that if we’re creating millionaire doctors, it’s because they’ve seen a heck of a lot of patients,” Smitherman said. “There are too few doctors and of course we want to get as much productivity as we can out of those that we have and financial incentive is the very best way known to do that.”
Figures for top physician earners show 224 family doctors in Ontario earned an average of $627,000 last year, while 374 diagnostic radiologists averaged $652,000.
