DR Jens Gredal, a Danish GP, is horrified to discover how general practice is financed in Australia.If someone tried to do that in Denmark we would be laughing, and then we would be taking the ferry to Sweden and working there,” he says.Like his Danish colleagues, Dr Gredal is paid about 50 euros ($A80.55) each time he completes the paperwork required by his local county and social security agencies after seeing a patient.Ten per cent of my income is paper[work] money,” says Dr Gredal, a board member of the Organisation of GPs in Denmark, a division of the Danish Medical Association.He receives four euros ($A6.44) each time he talks to a patient on the telephone and eight euros ($A12.88) to...
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