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News and Views
LOOK AT ALL THAT MILK! - Tom Melady, of the St. Columban
area, shows a student of Mary Smith's Tuesday -Thursday
Kindergarten class a milk cooler during a tour of his farm. The
children Teamed about what a cow eats, how a dairy farm
TIM CUMMING PHOTO
operates and that a cow has four stomachs. The children had
good questions, like "How do cows sleep?" (He said they often
sleep with their eyes wide open). He also told the children cows
. rarely moo, but when they do are usually discontent.
Rural doctors. face burnout:
BY TIM CUMMING
Expositor Editor
Small-town hospitals are burning
out their doctors, said the leader of
a rural physicians' group.
"If we could solve the retention
problem we wouldn't have a
recruitment problem," said Dr.
David Fletcher, president of the
Society of Rural Physicians.
"Nobody wants our job and we're
not likely to be replaced in numbers
or skills."
He said the demands of on-call
hours in the emergency department
represents the number one burnout
issue for rural doctors. The Mount
Forest physician said the issue
should be of deep concern to rural
residents.
Currently doctors must staff the
emergency departments in order to
retain privileges at the hospital.
"The goal here is to
create sustainable
working conditions..."
Fletcher said rural areas must allow
doctors the option to work part-time
only or have 40 -hour maximum
practices or office -practice only.
"The goal here is to create some
sustainable working conditions for
present and future rural doctors,"
accordingto the president of the
six -month-old advocacy group.
Closing emergency departments in
Huron County hospitals is not a
positive answer to funding
crunches, according to Fletcher.
"I would be concerned about the
social and economic well-being of
those that would lose 24-hour
emergency service," he said. "At
certain times, in certain weather
conditions, (Huron) hospitals are
too far apart to provide effective
emergency services if one or two or
three (hospital emergency depart-
ments) are closed."
The Society of Rural Physicians
was formed six months ago.
Fletcher calls it "the first national
rural health care association to
advocate for rural health care."
While not claiming to represent
rural physicians the group strives to
put words to some of the rural
health issues and their effects on
small communities.
Rural people have never been able
to get themselves organized to
protect their health care, he said.
According to Fletcher the Ontario
government has no plan to destroy
rural health care but nor does it
have a plan to save it.
"The government of Ontario is
committed to a non-medical model
in the future of health care," he
Fletcher
said. This could impact on the
hospital care rural people receive.
Fletcher sees a double -standard
when it applies to patients from a
rural area. He suggests there is an
'inside London' waiting list for
residents of that city and an 'out-
side London' waiting list for
patients from outside the city who
need care.
"A double standard has been
evolving for some time," said the
Mount Forest physician. "Through-
out the history of civilization when
it gets tough they stick it to the
peasants, its human nature."
Some commentators suggest there
are too many hospitals and services
delivered within small rural areas.
Fletcher counters that real ineffic-
iencies take place in Tar,gqoto where,
he said, 40 per ceht of the
province's doctors serve 20 per cent
of the province's population.
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