Why $500,000 is not too much for a remote GP
The plight of Julia Creek in remote Queensland has reignited debate in the profession.
The GP founder of a major corporate says salaries of $500,000 are firmly within the expectations of city GPs to uproot their lives by moving to the outback.
Places like Julia Creek in outback Queensland have made headlines by offering the average income of a neurosurgeon to a GP who will move there permanently, having relied on locum GPs for a decade.
But last week, Scottish IMG Dr Michael Mrozinski took to TikTok to argue that “maybe doctors don’t really care about money that much”, given the position in Julia Creek was still unfilled.
“Maybe by the time doctors have got to this stage, have done the rural generalist training, it’s been 12 years since they graduated,” he told his 300,000 followers.
