Should more Australian doctors be salaried than paid by fee-for-service? — Yes

Peat, Brian B

doi:10.5694/mja11.10898

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Obstetrician Brian Peat believes salaried doctors are favourably placed to provide best-practice care

That any sane nation, having observed that you could provide for the supply of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary interest in baking for you, should go on to give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg, is enough to make one despair of political humanity.

Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide, SA.

Correspondence: brian.peat@health.sa.gov.au

Competing interests:

I am a full-time salaried hospital doctor.

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