How to lure doctors to remote areas?

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Alberta physicians will get $1,200 a day and have flight and hotel bills paid if they work on-call shifts at the hospital in Fort McMurray, a move Health Minister Dave Hancock called a short-term solution to the community’s doctor shortage.

The $338,000 program will pay doctors to provide hospital care for patients without a family doctor in Fort McMurray, the Alberta government announced Tuesday.

(via Medpundit)

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