John Welsh: “The hospitals may just have to pony up higher salaries to attract the docs they need.”
I really don’t see any way around it.
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currently our hospitals pay nothing, so i think that something is higher than nothing.
I have always said that once they get rid of primary care, they’ll be coming for you next.
ALL frontline fields (primary care, general surgery, general ob/gyn, emergency room)are in danger due to low reimbursement, poor hours, increasing patient demands, increasing administrative burden and fear of litigation. This is why the rest of medicine needs to help prevent the demise of primary care, rather than benign (or malignant?) neglect. We are at the bottom of the house of cards, when we are pulled out, everything collapses.
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