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'My family doctor just fired me': Ontario patients frustrated with de-rostering (toronto.ctvnews.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Did you read the article?

The other is an enrollment system, in which doctors are paid per patient, regardless of how many times they see them. However, under the enrolment or rostered system, every time that patient seeks care elsewhere, the family physician is deducted part of the available funding. “It ranges anywhere from 50 to 100 per cent,” Toronto Dr. Fred Freedman told CTV News Toronto.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

That is a stupid system that had absolutely no input from healthcare professionals and a lot from people that want to privatize healthcare.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You… just described what I was talking about.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Burn out? Tired of BS? No viable therapeutic relationship?

Each time the patient sees a different doctor it hurts the family doctor financially, that is why they are "firing" patients. Nothing to do with any other factor, just financial.

If patients see other doctors often enough (6 times in a year), or for things that get billed at a higher rate than a check-up (aka, basically everything), the family doctor will need to pay out more than the government paid them in the first place.