DOCTORS SEEKING NEW PAYMENT SYSTEM FOR EMERGENCY ROOM SHIFTS
Faced with the challenge of having too few physicians to staff the emergency room at Oliver’s South Okanagan General Hospital, local doctors have sent a request to the provincial Health Ministry to change the way emergency room doctors at the hospital are paid. Doctors from Osoyoos and Oliver who take shifts at the hospital’s emergency room are currently paid under a fee-for-service system. [...more]
