Stop the whining about needing more Doctors
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"What they are not taking into account is that it's an incredibly competitive environment. We are going up against communities that have deeper pockets and are wealthier and can put more money on the table," she pointed out. She being Tracy West, the Project Manager of the Physicians' Recruitment Committee.
That's the point - the allocation of Doctors to Ontario, after each one of them has absorbed great gobs of public money for their education, should not be a bidding war. The provincial government has it all wrong, and we are approaching the problem the Rotarian way. That is to go begging for money and then give it to people who don't need it but makes the organisors look good.
There is a disconnect here, we have a local Health Centre that can't get enough patients to fully employ the designed establishment and a local committee saying we need more doctors. So who to believe?
"What they are not taking into account is that it's an incredibly competitive environment. We are going up against communities that have deeper pockets and are wealthier and can put more money on the table," she pointed out. She being Tracy West, the Project Manager of the Physicians' Recruitment Committee.
That's the point - the allocation of Doctors to Ontario, after each one of them has absorbed great gobs of public money for their education, should not be a bidding war. The provincial government has it all wrong, and we are approaching the problem the Rotarian way. That is to go begging for money and then give it to people who don't need it but makes the organisors look good.
There is a disconnect here, we have a local Health Centre that can't get enough patients to fully employ the designed establishment and a local committee saying we need more doctors. So who to believe?
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I'm a big supporter of the Port Hope Health Centre; and I would like to see the "Rotarian" style recruitment committee disbanded, for the reasons the BR has outlined.
Not that I know for sure, but I think the reason the PH Centre is still looking for patients is their mandate. They are seeking patients who don't have doctors, are low income or seniors, or have mental health concerns.
In these categories are folks without cars who need public transit to get there, so if they don't live in the immediate area, it's a problem.
These are also people who may not be aware of this new Health Centre yet. They are generally isolated by their circumstances.
Give it time, and I'm sure the Health Centre will be bursting at the seams. They are at the forefront of progressive health care and will have a bright future.
As for the physician recruitment committee, they are only attracting doctors who are interested in our golf courses and yacht club; who have screening processes designed to keep the disadvantaged, the pesky seniors, and those with difficult issues like mental health concerns OUT.
We have more than enough professionals of that ilk in our area, we sure don't need more!
I second Deb's comments about the Port Hope Health Centre. This is a good model as far as I am concerned. It faces slow growth but I think it has a permanent place in our future.
Wow. Deb's comment is filled with intolerance and prejudice.
I highly doubt she knows enough about the screening process to even begin to comment. I could be wrong and perhaps she is in the medical field and has a wealth of first hand experience. Even so, what right do you have to critique how members of the community spend their income? If someone wants a golf membership instead of a child, or a yacht instead of an elaborate house, or even if they want all of the above ... what does that have to do with their ability to provide quality care to patients?
What if I worked at Kraft on the line for 20 years, but dressed nicely and golfed at Dalewood? Am I unfit to perform blue collar work? Would it be okay if I preferred to sit around in my backyard and drink cheap beer and smoke?
I find your stereotyping disgusting and disrespectful. There are a lot of other points to discuss, but I suspect I would be wasting my words on someone who is clearly reluctant to thoughtfully consider different points of view.
At least I put my name to my opinions, Anonymous.
Having spent most of my working life as an advocate for the disadvantaged (and having been in that cateogy myself), I know all too well the kind of genuine intolerance they face in our fine upstanding community, and I also know who perpetuates the nasty stereotypes - the affluent, the same ones who have never had to choose between paying the rent or buying food for the kids.
Not all doctors pick and choose their patients to eliminate the poor, but plenty of them do and that, as they say, is a fact.
Thank God for the Port Hope Health Centre which had the prescience to consciously carve out a place for the less fortunate in their Centre.
Deb wrote: Thank God for the Port Hope Health Centre which had the prescience to consciously carve out a place for the less fortunate in their Centre.
They are seeking patients who don't have doctors, are low income or seniors, or have mental health concerns.
In these categories are folks without cars who need public transit to get there, so if they don't live in the immediate area, it's a problem.
Yup! It's all true and was discussed at the AGM of the Port Hope CHC just a few months ago. I was there. Thanks for a great synopsis, Deb.
Deb O., you didn't really address any of the comments Anonymous fired at you. You just repeated what you said in your first post. I hate to also incur your wrath, but I agree with some of his/her points. Just because you were one of the disadvantaged, it doesn't give you an automatic license to be intolerant of those who did not. Isn't that what you are upset at the "wealthy" for doing to the "low income"?
Pot ... meet the kettle.
I agree. Port Hope has better doctors. What does a dumb rotarian
knows rather than making a buck?
My doctor is dangerous, harmful and
refuses my access to my specialist.
You should not tolerate your system at all! You can't even get a better doctor.
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