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To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (423)	10/8/2000 1:14:10 PM
From: Teresa Lo	Read Replies (1) of 8925

The big reason for the shortages of medical personnel is the brain drain to the U.S. Entire surgical teams have been recruited from hospitals regularly for years. This is why all the patients from up North have to come to Vancouver and Toronto to get surgeries. They no longer have staff to man the operating rooms up there. nationalpost.com nationalpost.com This goes deeper. The Canadian medical system, before it was struck down by the Supreme Court, refused to pay new doctors the full fee for their services for the first five years (or something like that), if they stayed in metropolitan areas, forcing them up North. Once they were there, they were easily recruited to the U.S. On top of that there is a limit to how much doctors can bill the socialist system, making it inefficient for them to work more than three days a week. So in turn, we now have to poach from other countries: nationalpost.com Anyway, a search for the words "brain drain" at nationalpost.com tells it all. Also the battle is chronicled at the Medical Post week by week: medicalpost.com Teresa

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