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Originally Posted by Lee
A lot (most really) of hospital doctors are salaried - a big reason they go and practice privately. I think if ALL doctors were forced to be on salaries as you say (don't know how this would be possible) - the waiting lists would blow out by double - why would the private surgeons/physicians see extra patients for no extra income - could have an extra coffee break instead.
Most "over-servicing" you see now is, in my opinion fuelled not by doctors wanting to earn more, but by being medico-legally defensive. The doc ordering the xray/blood test makes nothing from that at all.
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Exactly. As far as university tenured staff are concerned, who cares. Like we have a shortage who cares. Doctors on the other hand, if i was one and somebody was going to fix my salary as a surgeon then I would be off to NZ or the US or England. I would have to have rocks in my head to stay here and have my pay fixed by some beauracrat.