Cash:
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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How does one spell “Tony Soprano?” Put an MD after the name.
Goodness, paying people to work in remote places more than they would make working someplace else. How novel.
Does no one remember how well pipeline workers got paid when working the sub-Arctic?
Northern Exposure come to life! Who woulda thunk it?
Wait, we’re not actually considering this are we?? This is coming from socialized medicine in Canada. It can’t be a good thing.
“How does one spell “Tony Soprano?” Put an MD after the name.”
And what does that asinine statement have to do with the point of the article?
It also helps to lie to them.
Anon 6:31-
The best thing to do if one is so daft that they “don’t get it” is not to let everybody else know. Think… extortion…
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