Comments on: The Court Order Doctors are (rightly) Ignoring http://warwickchapman.com/the-court-order-doctors-are-rightly-ignoring Positively South African Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:55:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Marc Lagane http://warwickchapman.com/the-court-order-doctors-are-rightly-ignoring/comment-page-1#comment-174 Marc Lagane Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:04:35 +0000 http://warwickchapman.com/?p=278#comment-174 I, myself, am in the health industry. While I am in the emergency medical sector, I, like 90% of my friends, have opted to work abroad. This is mainly attributed to the inability to sustain a decent lifestyle on the salaries paid by both private and government sector health departments. Doctors study for years and should be entitled to a decent wage, relevant to their time, effort and qualifications. Why is it that staff in 'revenue generating' departments can be remunerated suitably with a three year degree, bjut a doctor, who forms part of 'grudge purchase service', is paid a fraction of that? I say they must continue to strike, the taxis do it so the 'educated sector' must also stand up for their rights. What are they going to do, fire everybody? They can't staff the system as it is, let alone without the bulk of the health professionals they propose to dismiss. I, myself, am in the health industry. While I am in the emergency medical sector, I, like 90% of my friends, have opted to work abroad. This is mainly attributed to the inability to sustain a decent lifestyle on the salaries paid by both private and government sector health departments.

Doctors study for years and should be entitled to a decent wage, relevant to their time, effort and qualifications. Why is it that staff in ‘revenue generating’ departments can be remunerated suitably with a three year degree, bjut a doctor, who forms part of ‘grudge purchase service’, is paid a fraction of that?

I say they must continue to strike, the taxis do it so the ‘educated sector’ must also stand up for their rights. What are they going to do, fire everybody? They can’t staff the system as it is, let alone without the bulk of the health professionals they propose to dismiss.

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