The problem is the
current bottleneck in BC is OR time caused by lack of OR support staff. Not just in Lower Mainland but pretty much BC. Trial, Kelowna etc have ORs that are not staffed and docs twiddling their thumbs. With all the thumbs twiddling, they have to either time out and give up their specialist licensing or leave for greener pastures like Ab or States and keep their specialist licenses. Each doc needs about 2 full OR days/ week to keep their licenses current.
If they loose their specialist licensing, they are not doctors anymore, that's the whole medical career. They can't default to GP eg.
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Originally Posted by Graeme S
That's like saying "If more GPs decided to spend the extra few years becoming specialists, we'd have less of a surgical backlog"
Becoming an NP is not the same as becoming an RN. There's a lot more time invested. "If we took X people and got them to do Y job" is a straw man. Every solution has its own problems.
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