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Maybe teachers should get the same treatment as doctors. Fair is fair, after all.
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While waiting for dinner to cook tonight, (my husband was doing the cooking, and I was doing the waiting) I came across the following article in the paper and thought maybe we, meaning teachers, should get the same treatment as doctors. Fair is fair, after all.Here’s what the Ontario government agreed to give 33 000 family doctors.
Doctors will get a bonus to take on new patients. For instance, if a doctor takes on a complex patient, such as someone with chronic illness and multitude of health problems, they will get a $350 one-time payment
Now, I thinking that if the government agreed to give doctors 350 extra dollars as an incentive to treat complex patients, maybe the government should give teachers an extra 350 dollars payment to teach each complex student , students with learning disabilities, behaviour problems, ADHS/ADD etc., etc., etc.
The more I think about the idea, the more fair it seems to me. I teach about 30 complex students a semester so that would be 30 x $350 = WOW!!!
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Sounds good although there’d be teachers who’d still turn down the money to avoid the complex students.
Mathew,
Just like some doctors do. Earlier there was an article about that too. How patients with serious illness couldn’t were rejected by some drs.
Wow, I’m not really familiar with health care in Ontario, but that seems so strange. We have problems with doctor shortages also, but somehow I don’t think getting more money for taking more patients would really help.
Chelle,
Yes, but by offering incentives to doctors it LOOKS like the government is doing something. It seems to me family doctors are over worked as it is. What we need is more doctors not doctors taking on more patients.
More doctors – that’s the issue. However until the government funds more spaces in the medical schools, there won’t be more doctors. My daughter, who wanted to be a doctor her whole life, who obtained an undergrad degree in biology, and a masters in biochemistry, couldn’t even get an interview in an Ontario med school. She ended up applying to St Georges in Grenada, getting accepted and offered a scholarship. Twenty percent of her class was Canadian. She will be spending her residency in the US and will end up practicing there. There is no lack of talent or desire for young Canadians to be physicians. There is a lack of will of governments to do anything about it. When Paul Martin was balancing the federal government’s budget back in the early 90’s he was warned by the medical profession that doctor shortages would result if he made cuts to transfer payments. Looks like the they were right.
Sharon,
I can imagine how frustrating it must be for your family. I’m delighted you found a way to make your daughter’s dream come true. All that persistence is definitely going to pay off. Congratulations.