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Old 13-04-2019, 02:37 PM
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The government/moh has been saying that they want/need more family physicians, but yet many people on this forum have been saying that the gp market is very saturated. So just wondering what is the true situation?
I think they want well trained family physicians that can handle complex cases and reduce referrals to acute Hosps. They want well trained family physicians that can handle chronics well, that can reduce complications rate. They want family physicians to do more.

Hence Chas has been expanded to cover all Singaporeans. Although the chas amount may not be a lot. But there is rental pressure, there is cost of EMR, cost of drugs, cost of consumables, cost of compliance and records keeping to prepare for MOH audit, cost of accounting, cost of continuing medical education. In this day and age, you have to be very altruistic to provide good care. Need to work really long hours, to keep consult sufficiently long for each patient, and price reasonably.

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