N.Z. DOCTORS' EARNINGS
COMMENT IN THE "LANCET"'
I .LONDON, December 1. .. T An & ICM lrlu the medical journal Lancet.' states that some- general practitioners in New Zealand are alleged to ( be making £10,000 a year. "Z h j fe<l for service is one of five methods of paying doctors under New Zealand s free medical services for the whole population, but a disadvantage of the system, is that it is open to abuse, it says. "It is comparatively easy for a moderately competent doctor by over-attendance of patients to earn £3000 to £4000 a year The more efficient, by dint of organisation, are alleged to reach £10,000. "New Zealand will some day have to find a solution to a problem which we have failed to solve here—how to reward the able, conscientious doctor who may make fewer but more useful attendances than his Jess efficient and less scrupulous colleagues."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 133, 2 December 1944, Page 8
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149N.Z. DOCTORS' EARNINGS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 133, 2 December 1944, Page 8
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