{"id":248,"date":"2012-05-13T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=248"},"modified":"2012-05-13T20:49:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T00:49:00","slug":"canadian-doctors-say-fee-cuts-pay-inequalities-will-spur-exodus-news-national-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Canadian doctors say fee cuts, pay inequalities will spur exodus | News | National Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2012\/05\/12\/canadian-doctors-warn-fee-cuts-pay-inequalities-will-spur-exodus\/\">Canadian doctors say fee cuts, pay inequalities will spur exodus | News | National Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite repeated, expensive attempts to more logically divvy up fees, ophthalmologists earn almost 70% more on average than brain surgeons, who take in almost double the income of psychiatrists, according to Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) figures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are terrible inequities within medicine,\u201d said Michael Rachlis, a Toronto physician and health policy analyst. \u201cAnd this has really almost nothing to do with the actual value of services. It\u2019s just that some services \u2026 often because of technological change, end up being relatively overpaid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Comparisons with other industrialized countries suggest that, on average, Canada is among the most generous in remunerating its doctors, though the U.S. continues to out-pay in some specialities. Statistics and recruitment agencies report a net migration of physicians into Canada lately.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Sent using Google Toolbar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian doctors say fee cuts, pay inequalities will spur exodus | News | National Post: Despite repeated, expensive attempts to more logically divvy up fees, ophthalmologists earn almost 70% more &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=248\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Canadian doctors say fee cuts, pay inequalities will spur exodus | News | National Post&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-physician-income"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}