If only we could rid ourselves of the pigheaded politicians and the army of overpaid civil servants who don’t understand this the way doctors do. Better-paid doctors means happier doctors, which leads to healthier patients, yields a more efficient health-care system, produces shorter wait times for family doctors, and guarantees faster referrals to specialists. They obviously don’t understand doctors because they are self-hating doctors who hate other doctors. And so the war of attrition and contrition will continue — pitting OMA doctors against themselves, and against the doctors at the health ministry. In this war of bombast, co-operation and communication — the prerequisites for any partnership to improve our health-care system — will be unavoidable casualties.

Source: thestar February 09, 2017 10:01 UTC