There are more doctors coming to Metro Vancouver and unemployed than those leaving. A good chunk of cardiologists, orthopedic surgeons living locally are hardly employed and living off their spouses wages (often doctors, and they rely on tax lawyers to optimize their taxes). The hire rate is 1 a year locally, a good 10 come to the city every year (in about a few month's time when they get their fellowship)
The problems are:
1. We have a fixed budget.
2. We cannot afford to hire more nurses to staff the OR (we keep hiring PN from Philippines to keep the number up but they can only work at the wards). So specialists that rely on OR are out of work.
3. Doctors are not retiring at the rate they are churning them out.
4. We need another center for Children / peds outside of Lower Mainland.
Guess what? it is mostly Feddies responsibility, this is a
provincial election.
OR Nurses are in huge demand and they can moonlight at private clinics on their day offs.
You want more help and compassion? Be dedicated: Move to Kitimat or anywhere along Highway 15 / middle of no where live for a decade or so, volunteer like mad and then apply. I think at PG they made you sign some kind of agreement to stay in the area, then they accept you as a med student for rural med. The feds also forgive any student loans after
x number of years if you stay. Most people can't hack it, that's why no one is there.
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Originally Posted by Anjew
we need serious health care reforms.
more funding
implement strategies to keep our doctors in the province (most of the UBC grads will not work in BC).
more subsidy to help some of us who are capable and passionate but lack the monetary means to do so.
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