N.B. doctor's departure supports UdeM findings on healthcare worker job satisfaction

A N.B. doctor is practising in another province after her desire to work in Charlotte County was stalled by provincial requirements. N.B.’s the only province that requires family doctors to work in hospitals to bill Medicare for the work in their family practices. The provincial government is currently easing the workload for family doctors by adding more hospitalists. Instead of focusing on how doctors choose to practice, a healthcare expert who examined how primary care influenced job satisfaction believes the province should set specific outcomes for doctors like ensuring timely access to primary care. While collaborative practices replaced solo practices as the trend, she also indicates the province needs to be careful not to be rigid with the preferred model so that it can more easily recruit doctors. .