'I'm a problem solver': Meet the mayor whose plan to attract family doctors is turning heads across Canada
'I'm a problem solver': Meet the mayor whose plan to attract family doctors is turning heads across Canada
(Doug Kobayashi, mayor of Colwood, B.C.) idea was straightforward. After talking to doctors in 2022 about what was important to them, many said less paperwork, more financial stability and a better work/life balance.
Kobayashi's response: Make them municipal employees. This differs from the usual system where many family doctors in Canada are independent contractors and responsible for all aspects of the business plus seeing patients.
"As an employee, we want you to be a doctor 100 per cent of the time. No more administration, we'll look after this. We'll look after hiring your medical office assistants. We will give you a salary, a fixed salary. We will give you benefits, all the benefits," Kobayashi said.
"Mayor pitches common sense idea" probably going to get shut down by some variety of "big pharma"
Or the college of physicians and surgeons
There are physicians in Canada that are employed by corporations - OH&S physicians, for example. The Colleges make sure physicians are practicing ethically and competently, but I don't think they have any say in relation to whether a Dr is employed or self-employed. What would be the issue?