Provincial Auditor-General Kim McPherson’s suggestion of making doctors’ pay public is getting the thumbs down from the New Brunswick Medical Society.
The Medical Society’s Executive Director Anthony Knight warns such a move could hurt efforts to recruit new doctors to the province.
He also is highly critical of Provincial Health Minister Ted Flemming’s relationship with doctors.
Knight accuses Flemming of being on some sort of campaign to taint the public’s perception of doctors which they are concerned about after going out of their way by accepting a freeze on their medicare fee schedule.
Knight argues attacking doctors is not the way to go if you’re looking at finding co-operative solutions to the financial challenges facing health care.
