Via the #Montreal Gazette, October 17, 2024
Losing your #GeneralPractitioner is stressful and the long wait to find a new care provider is frustratingly long. But all #Quebecers should be extremely worried about the plan in the works to resolve the scarcity of family #physicians once and for all: cutting loose all the people in decent #health and assigning only vulnerable patients with chronic conditions to dedicated doctors.
Recently Medicare rules changed so that you cannot claim ANY rebate from Medicare for a telephone consultation with your General Practitioner unless you have seen them IN PERSON in the past 12 months. This creates a massive barrier to medical care for anyone who is housebound due to chronic illness/Disability; and also to anyone who cannot afford to risk catching COVID in a doctor's waiting room. There is a petition to change the rules back here: https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN4872
#Medicare
#Telehealth
#GP
#GeneralPractitioner
#Disability
#Disabled
#ChronicIllness
#ChronicallyIll
Recently Medicare rules changed so that you cannot claim ANY rebate from Medicare for a telephone consultation with your General Practitioner unless you have seen them IN PERSON in the past 12 months. This creates a massive barrier to medical care for anyone who is housebound due to chronic illness/Disability; and also to anyone who cannot afford to risk catching COVID in a doctor's waiting room. There is a petition to change the rules back here:
https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN4872
#Medicare
#Telehealth
#GP
#GeneralPractitioner
#Disability
#Disabled
#ChronicIllness
#ChronicallyIll
News - and plenty of it - on the #SoMe & #POCUS front in the #weeklywrap
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@MGottliebMD
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@ResaELewiss
@POCUSJournal
@nickharrison23
For this and more
https://www.ultrasoundtraining.com.au/news/zedu-weekly-wrap-25-november-2022/