COLLINS – Healthcare – so many cries for help, so little being done
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IF YOU WEREN’T ALREADY AFRAID of where our healthcare system is heading, you should be now. More and more groups are issuing calls of alarm.
We’ve already heard stories of long waits in emergency rooms, people dying because of delays in seeing patients. Nurses, burned out, just quitting because of the pressure of trying to deal with too many patients and too few resources, are paying for TV ads to point out how bad the situation is.
Now doctors are getting into the act, pointing out how bad conditions are. When doctors in Surrey are suggesting that conditions are so bad that one of the busiest ERs in the province should shut down because the level of care is unsafe, that’s scary, and the calls for help are not self-serving.
The health care system is failng us. And it’s largely a staffing problem, but it goes beyond that.
Doug Collins has had a wide background in the broadcast industry, having done virtually every type of news and sports broadcasting, including news anchor, sports play-by-play, and editorialist. His “One Man’s Opinion” aired on TV from 1973- 2013. He retired from his management roles in the station in October, 2018, but continues to write his column. In 2019, Doug was awarded the Freedom of the City.
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Good one Doug. Burnout is also hastened when it is very difficult to work against your employer’s protocols. Early intervention was cancelled in favour of ‘Go home until your lips turn purple, then come back’. ‘Do No Harm’ was killed. Can you separate the Medical Collusion from the Military Operation? Remember the delivery of all the products in very cold freezers. See Kim Iverson interviewing Dr. David Marten, a white collar crime investigator, on St. Patricks Day.
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I work with young volunteers in our health care system, some of which are heading to medical school in the Fall, including my own granddaughter. Everyone of them is heading into a specialty and not one of them is going into general practice. When asked why, they all responded because the pay is very low for the long hours you have to put in and then there are the office fees, wages, insurance etc. and endless paperwork. Perhaps it is time for the gov’t to look at helping out our general practitioners and boost their wages to the level of a specialist. Both ends of the spectrum need each other for referrals. Our health care system is bogged down in bureaucracy and a major overlap of services, none of which work efficiently.
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I firmly believe doctors are already well paid. The office expense and small business burden is a scapegoat. Doctors should be paid a good salary for sure but less than what they are paid now
(way less in the cases of specialists) and paid bonuses as health outcomes improve across the board.
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