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To deal with a doctor shortage, this B.C. city has decided to start paying them directly (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The Colwood Medical Clinic will be run not as a private practice, as is normally the case, but by the Greater Victoria municipality itself. The mayor says they have now hired their first doctor and plan on bringing on seven more.