Comments by "" (@louistournas120) on "'Every single year we lose money,' says Ontario family physician leaving his practice" video.

@NikeDattani "Maybe that salary had to go down from 300k/year to 200k/year?" ==That's the problem. He doesn't give us the numbers. If he is making 100 k$/y, that is pretty good. Who can't live on 100k$/y?
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@taekwondotime I would like to upvote your comment many more times.
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Dumping more money into it is one solution but a more sensible solution is to move away from this notion that doctors and lawyers need to make twice as much money as the average person. Reduce their salaries, reduce the salaries of nurses. Use that money to hire more doctors and nurses and the wait time for patients will go down, the work load on doctors will go down.
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@5thelementcannabisproduction It is not that high. In Quebec, a family doctor gets 370 k$/y. They have to pay their rent, equipment and such and I think they end with 150 k$/y That is a very good salary. I make 50 or 55 k$/y and I am not a doctor.
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@UnAnonKnown Is that bc the government doesn't own any clinics?
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@dawsonholdsworth5371 The solution is to reduce the salaries of doctors and nurses and other staff. Pay less for medical equipment. With that money, hire more staff which will increase the quality of service.
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@abcdedfg8340 Poverty wage? Wll how much is the staff payed and what do they do?
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@leech3427 At my local clinic, they said that they had to turn down some doctors since there is no place. There is no room in their budget. At universities, there is probably way more students that want to apply to medical school and they turn away who knows how many. I guess such students than apply to their second choice. In Quebec, 15 y ago, they were saying that immigrant doctors come here but they don’t let them work. Some would work as taxi drivers and various other jobs. I know one that would take phone calls and eventually he was accepted as a pediatrician. I know one PHD who had an expertise in agriculture but again did not work in his field. There was one that was a computational physicists, PHD. What he did was a specialty and so, there was no job for him. Those last 2 aren’t “doctors”.
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@leech3427 That is certainly possible. I don't know what is going on overall in Canada. I only observe Montreal and the clinics are always packed. The government invented a system that alerts you by email or something to let you know when you're next. So, no need to wait at the clinic for 4 h with other sick people. If you need a EKG, a holter test or anything from a hospital, the wait time was several months. I don’t know how it is now. For surgeries, it can be from a few months to 2 years. In Montreal, there isn’t room to build any hospitals or schools, yet the population has skyrocketed. What they do with schools is that they take half or more of the playground and build an extension to the school.
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@reejan8109 The government can easily own everything. I find it funny that Canada has vast empty lands. It is all forests and rocks yet I can't own it, I can't mine it, or build anything on it. The government splits land and sells it to people yet they don't reserve some land for themselves to build more clinics and hospitals, universities, high schools. What a strange government.
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