Dr. Louis Hugo Francescutti, a former president of the CMA, authored the March 15 post titled, Medical Professionalism Matters to Me. In it, he suggested doctors review their peers annually and work in salaried positions on one-year contracts that are renewed based on meeting certain performance standards.
“I think what we need to do is stop and take stock of $240 billion or so that Canadians are paying every year on this care system,” Franscescutti told Halifax-based CBC Radio program Mainstreet.
“So what we need to say in 2016, are there some places around the world where they do it a lot better than us that we can learn from, and the example that I choose all the time is the Cleveland Clinic.”
The Ohio clinic has physicians on salaried, one-year contracts, he says. They work with their peers constantly to measure their work and best practices within the organization.
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