If you think physicians don’t have any control now, just take a look at our colleagues in the UK:
Doctors leaders said on Friday that GPs had been put in an impossible position by the government in a dispute over extending surgery hours.The government is threatening to take money away from GPs and give it to local health authorities unless they agree to open their practices an extra three hours a week from April.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has pledged to make surgery times more family friendly but doctors say there is no evidence that longer opening hours will improve patient’s health.
(via a reader tip)
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I can tell you what I would do and I guarantee UK doctors will do. “You are going to make us work longer and pay us the same. I’ll take my sweet time on every case and not increase the number of cases I do one bit. In fact I wouldn’t be shocked if my numbers are down.” Thats what they will get.
Any slave, when his master is trying to extract more than the usual amount of work, is going to get passive aggressive about it and no net additional work is going to get done. Long tea breaks, phantom patients booked or those one knows are not going to show–there are plenty of ways to squeeze the same work into longer hours.
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