If you have enough asswipe, I guess. A multi-flush excursion this is.

Won't your legs go numb?

I don't think I have to explain that hunting down every instance of "LGBTQ" and "nonbinary" from all government software is the result of a homophobic conspiracy theory. It's not subtle.

Especially when the Charge are *regularly selling out their games* like guys do you hate money? why do you hate money? plus the additive effects of event space for mid-size non-sports entertainment acts that can't pull an 18,000 seat arena.

facts

And I don't mean to sound like I'm scolding you personally because it's not your fault that there are parts that are visible and parts that are not, as well as parts that are advertised and parts that are deliberately obfuscated.

Yes. It's not well known that we are in a nationwide shortage of not only anaesthetists but also AAs and perfusionists, and hiring the docs doesn't mean you can do surgeries - you still need AAs, OR nursing, and if you're doing cardiacs, perfusion to pump cases and ECMO backup. All pipeline careers.

In my opinion, we will get a lot of bang for our buck by investing in allied health careers, because they're not only force multipliers for physicians but also input pipelines for advanced practice. RT will be degree-entry-to-practice within my lifetime. RT-to-PA bridge would be a great pipeline.

People look at health careers like RTs where I went to the same school as welders and my course cost roughly the price of a used car, and think I am not a fundamental pillar of the health system. There's no RT-to-NP program. The only reason I could do PA is because I paid to do a BSc on my own.

There's some stuff that we do well in Canada, specifically using RTs as input for stuff like Anaesthesia Assistants (in the USA it's RN only.) RT bridge to perfusion is common - you need a BSc or BN otherwise as it's master's entry to practice. ECMO techs are required to do cardiac surgeries.

And that's definitely more your wheelhouse than mine. My point is more that stuff like advanced practitioners have pipelines that require an input and by failing to hire in to those input positions we have choked off the supply chain for advanced professions. RTs/RNs in Canada are that input.

And cost a lot of money in incentives to parachute in in the first place, which is then a completely sunk cost once they dip.

I think we should subsidize medical degrees because it'll change the demographics of medicine and lead to a representative workforce (especially in Indigenous communities) and better access for vulnerable Canadians. I still want it, oriented toward that goal. No handouts for rich people.

Like, I just want residency spots for all the physicians we already *do* graduate dogg

I'm not saying *don't* pay to train physicians, I'm saying if you are paying to train physicians, one neeeds to be careful who funds what. It's the people from remote and Northern communities you want to pay to train. And that's basically NOSM's whole MO.

No, but if we look at productivity, staff who are not physicians make physicians more efficient and productive. It's related.

One of the proposed pipelines for physicians is to streamline credentialing for ITPs (internationally trained physicians.) Cost effective! They're already here!

That law eventually got thrown out for being unconstitutional but its role in wage suppression is not to be understated. The only reason that Ontario eventually coughed up a bunch of healthcare money is because a bunch of kids almost died and it would have looked really bad.

We have to call out what the provinces are doing, because they rely on the misdirection of look at how we're feeding more meat to the grinder and that's going to fix the situation when meanwhile (again, ON) they pass a law to make it illegal to give raises during a period of historic inflation.

FWIW you're not out to lunch here, and I think it's worth having this conversation in public precisely because the public is propagandized to about the issue; these are commonly held beliefs and they need to be debunked because they don't reflect the reality. People are misdirected on purpose.