Junior doctors are walking away from general practice 'in droves', and one veteran of the profession says there are a few reasons why that is the case.
abc.net.au/news/gp-shortage-to-worsen-as-junior-doctors-turn-to-specialty-fields/101386674A Queensland physician with more than 40 years of experience is warning that Australia's doctor shortage is likely to get worse and that more medical practices could close as graduates abandon general practice as a specialty.The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners says medical graduates are choosing other specialties over general practice.
The long hours and relatively low pay – especially for bulk-billing doctors – are what Dr McDonald believes are dissuading young doctors from becoming GPs."You can be good at that one thing, and you'll get paid four times more than a GP."Dr McDonald said the practice she worked in was three doctors short of its usual rota.
The same survey in 2021 found that numbers have dropped to 14.7 per cent, the lowest rate in 10 years. In a statement, federal Health Minister Mark Butler admitted junior doctors were "walking away from general practice in droves" and blamed the previous government for "nine long years of cuts and neglect of Medicare".
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